title: Toward an integrated software platform for systems pharmacology.
abstract: Understanding complex biological systems requires the extensive support of computational tools. This is particularly true for systems pharmacology, which aims to understand the action of drugs and their interactions in a systems context. Computational models play an important role as they can be viewed as an explicit representation of biological hypotheses to be tested. A series of software and data resources are used for model development, verification and exploration of the possible behaviors of biological systems using the model that may not be possible or not cost effective by experiments. Software platforms play a dominant role in creativity and productivity support and have transformed many industries, techniques that can be applied to biology as well. Establishing an integrated software platform will be the next important step in the field.
authors.forename: Samik
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: Yukiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
authors.forename: Yoshiyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Asai
authors.forename: Kun-Yi
authors.initials: KY
authors.lastname: Hsin
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kitano
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D049490:Systems Biology