Introduction
Systems immunology is a novel means for studying, analyzing, and understanding complex immune systems using a systems approach. This is an interdisciplinary approach that uses high-throughput technologies and computational methods that can be applied to identify a global map of complex interactions between cell–cell, cell–environment, protein–protein, and protein–DNA interactions. Currently, DNA microarrays, next generation sequencing, and modern mass spectrometry are used to define and monitor all components of the immune system. The overall goal of this approach is to generate a hypothesis, identify new biological rules, and predict the behavior of biological systems. Traditional approaches to studying immune regulation is primarily based on reductionist approaches of molecular biology. They offer a limited view of the complex immune system since there are so many different types of host cells and genes perturbed by the entry of a pathogen. To make things more complex,...
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Saha, S. (2013). Systems Immunology. In: Dubitzky, W., Wolkenhauer, O., Cho, KH., Yokota, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems Biology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9863-7_114
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