Anuradha Chauhan, Ulf W Liebal, Julio Vera, Simone Baltrusch, Christian Junghanß, Markus Tiedge, Georg Fuellen, Olaf Wolkenhauer, Rüdiger Köhling
Aging is a systemic process which progressively manifests itself at multiple levels of structural and functional organization from molecular reactions and cell-cell interactions in tissues to the physiology of an entire organ. There is ever increasing data on biomedical relevant network interactions for the aging process at different scales of time and space. To connect the aging process at different structural, temporal and spatial scales, extensive systems biological approaches need to be deployed. Systems biological approaches can not only systematically handle the large-scale datasets (like high-throughput data) and the complexity of interactions (feedback loops, cross talk), but also can delve into nonlinear behaviors exhibited by several biological processes which are beyond intuitive reasoning...
2015: Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology