Leroy Hood. 2011 National Medal of Science to Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology.
Other companies, including Novartis, have done work in the systems biology arena.
Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology, predicts "enormous numbers of genomes" will be completed over the next decade or so.
Accelerator is a management company created by a group of health care-focused venture firms, a real estate firm and the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology.
The Systems Biology Knowledgebase or KBase will allow scientists to predict the effect of microbes on their communities and if they can clean-up contaminated environments or sequester carbon on land, for example.
Institutions involved include Yale University, University of California, Berkeley, SRI International, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Boston University, Burnham Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Chicago, and the Institute for Systems Biology.
In some cases, drug companies may want to avoid interfering with key proteins to avoid too many unintended side effects, says Marc Vidal, director of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Instead of just looking at one gene at a time, it uses an emerging method called systems biology that marries differential equations, computer simulations, and wet-lab biology to try to understand how molecular circuits go awry in cancer.
He has assembled an impressive array of technologies including robotics and information systems as well as molecular biology.
Researchers there conduct studies in astrophysics, biology, medicine, geology, glaciology and ocean and climate systems.
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