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Toward a Philosophy of Systems Biology

Systems Biology: Philosophical Foundations Fred C. Boogerd, Frank J. Bruggeman, Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr, and Hans V. Westerhoff, eds Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007 (360 pp; €99.95 hbk; ISBN 978-0-444-52085-2)

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Davies, J.F., O’Malley, M.A. Toward a Philosophy of Systems Biology. Biol Theory 2, 420–422 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1162/biot.2007.2.4.420

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