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Allen, John F., 2001, “Bioinformatics and Discovery: Induction Beckons Again”, BioEssays, 23(1): 104–107. doi:10.1002/1521-1878(200101)23:1<104::AID-BIES1013>3.0.CO;2-2 (Scholar)
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Andersen, Hanne, 2016, “Collaboration, Interdisciplinarity, and the Epistemology of Contemporary Science”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 56: 1–10. doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.10.006 (Scholar)
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Bapteste, Eric, and François Papale, 2021, “Modeling the Evolution of Interconnected Processes: It is the Song and the Singers: Tracking Units of Selection with Interaction Networks”, BioEssays, 43(1): 2000077. (Scholar)
Barabási, Albert-László, 2002, Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life, New York, NY: Basic Books/Perseus Publishing. (Scholar)
Barabási, Albert-László & Réka Albert, 1999, “Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks”, Science, 286(5439): 509–512. doi:10.1126/science.286.5439.509 (Scholar)
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Barabási, Albert-László, Natali Gulbahce, & Joseph Loscalzo, 2011, “Network Medicine: a Network-based Approach to Human Disease”, Nature Reviews Genetics, 12(1): 56–68. doi:10.1038/nrg2918 (Scholar)
Barrett, Christian L., Tae Yong Kim, Hyun Uk Kim, Bernhard Ø. Palsson, & Sang Yup Lee, 2006, “Systems Biology as a Foundation for Genome-scale Synthetic Biology”, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 17(5): 488–492. doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2006.08.001 (Scholar)
Bartol, Jordan, 2013, “Re-examining the Gene in Personalized Genomics”, Science & Education, 22(10): 2529–2546. doi:10.1007/s11191-012-9484-2 (Scholar)
Bassingthwaighte, James, Peter Hunter, & Denis Noble, 2009, “The Cardiac Physiome: Perspectives for the Future”, Experimental Physiology, 94(5): 597–605. doi:10.1113/expphysiol.2008.044099 (Scholar)
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Bechtel, William, 2015a, “Can Mechanistic Explanation be Reconciled with Scale-free Constitution and Dynamics?”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 53: 84–93. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.03.006 (Scholar)
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–––, 2020, “Hierarchy and Levels: Analysing Networks to Study Mechanisms in Molecular Biology”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1796): 20190320. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0320 (Scholar)
Bechtel, William & Adele A. Abrahamsen, 2011, “Complex Biological Mechanisms: Cyclic, Oscillatory, and Autonomous”, in Philosophy of Complex Systems (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, 10), Cliff A. Hooker (ed.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 257–285. (Scholar)
–––, 2012, “Thinking Dynamically About Biological Mechanisms: Networks of Coupled Oscillators”, Foundations of Science, 18(4): 707–723. doi:10.1007/s10699-012-9301-z (Scholar)
Bechtel, William & Richard C. Richardson, 1993 [2010], Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Reprinted by the MIT Press in 2010. (Scholar)
Bedau, Mark A., 2009, “Living Technology Today and Tomorrow”, Technoetic Arts, 7(2): 199–206. doi:10.1386/tear.7.2.199/1 (Scholar)
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Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette, 2009, “The Chemists’ Style of Thinking”, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 32(4): 365–378. doi:10.1002/bewi.200901385 (Scholar)
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Bertolaso, Marta, 2011, “Hierarchies and Causal Relationships in Interpretative Models of the Neoplastic Process”, (Scholar)
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Bich, Leonardo & Sara Green, 2018, “Is Defining Life Pointless? Operational Definitions at the Frontiers of Biology”, Synthese, 195: 3919–3946. doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1397-9 (Scholar)
Boogerd, Fred C., 2017, “Systems Biology in the Broad Sense”, in Green 2017: 49–58. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47000-9_4">10.1007/978-3-319-47000-9_4 (Scholar)
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Boogerd, Fred C., Frank J. Bruggeman, & Robert C. Richardson, 2013, “Mechanistic Explanations and Models in Molecular Systems Biology”, Foundations of Science, 18(4): 725–744. doi:10.1007/s10699-012-9302-y (Scholar)
Boogerd, Fred C., Frank J. Bruggeman, Robert C. Richardson, A. Stephan, & Hans V. Westerhoff, 2005, “Emergence and Its Place in Nature: A Case Study of Biochemical Networks”, Synthese, 145(1): 131–164. doi:10.1007/s11229-004-4421-9 (Scholar)
Boudry, Maarten & Massimo Pigliucci, 2013, “The Mismeasure of Machine: Synthetic Biology and the Trouble with Engineering Metaphors”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44(4): 660–668. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.05.013 (Scholar)
Braillard, Pierre-Alain, 2010, “Systems Biology and the Mechanistic Framework”, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 32(1): 43–62. (Scholar)
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Braillard Pierre-Alain & Christophe Malaterre (eds.), 2015, Explanation in Biology. An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences, Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9822-8 (Scholar)
Briat, Corentin, Ankit Gupta, & Mustafa Khammash, 2016, “Antithetic Integral Feedback Ensures Robust Perfect Adaptation in Noisy Biomolecular Networks”, Cell Systems, 2(1): 15–26. doi:10.1016/j.cels.2016.01.004 (Scholar)
Brigandt, Ingo, 2013, “Systems Biology and the Integration of Mechanistic Explanation and Mathematical Explanation”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44(4): 477–492. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.06.002 (Scholar)
Brigandt, Ingo, 2015, “Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Limits of Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation”, in Braillard & Malaterre 2015: 135–173. (Scholar)
Brigandt, Ingo & Alan Love, 2017, “Reductionism in Biology”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2017/entries/reduction-biology/>. (Scholar)
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Calcott, Brett, Arnon Levy, Mark L. Siegal, Orkun S. Soyer, & Andreas Wagner, 2015, “Engineering and Biology: Counsel for a Continued Relationship”, Biological Theory, 10(1): 50–59. doi:10.1007/s13752-014-0198-3 (Scholar)
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Calvert, Jane & Joan H. Fujimura, 2011, “Calculating Life? Duelling Discourses in Interdisciplinary Systems Biology”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 42(2): 155–163. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.11.022 (Scholar)
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Carusi, Annamaria, Kevin Burrage, & Bianca Rodríguez, 2012, “Bridging Experiments, Models and Simulations: An Integrative Approach to Validation in Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology”, American Journal of Physiology—Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 303(2): H144–H155. doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01151.2011 (Scholar)
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Christiansen, Andreas, 2016a, “Synthetic Biology and the Moral Significance of Artificial Life: A Reply to Douglas, Powell and Savulescu”, Bioethics, 30(5): 372–9. doi:10.1111/bioe.12248 (Scholar)
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