title: Searching for a conceptual language in Systems Biology: Hints from Statistical Mechanics?
abstract: The search for a unified framework describing the causal structure of biological entities is one of the main aims of Systems Biology. This comment tries to make the point that universal structures may be found in Systems Biology, in analogy with the success of Statistical Mechanics in describing a large variety of different physical systems in a single conceptual framework.
authors.affiliation: Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, United Kingdom. c.matek1@physics.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Matek
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D011336:Probability; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods*; D013816:Thermodynamics