TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategies for Coordinating Experimentation and Modeling in Integrative Systems Biology
AU - MacLeod, Miles Alexander James
AU - Nersessian, Nancy J.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In this paper, we provide a novel analysis of the affordances and trade‐offs of different strategies for integrating model‐building and experimentation in integrative systems biology. Unimodal strategies rely on collaboration between experimenters and modelers in distinct laboratories. In a bimodal strategy modelers perform their own experiments. Each option has advantages and challenges. In the case of the labs we studied, the choice of strategy often depends on preferences held by lab directors as to the strategy that best achieves certain philosophical objectives concerning what they see as the aims of modeling in systems biology and the epistemic standards to apply to it. We identify an important connection between philosophical divisions in systems biology and the structure of research in systems biology. Better knowledge of these strategies and their philosophical motivations provide insight behind the diversifying structure of the field, and can help lab directors understand the challenges their researchers face, as well as the training and lab organization options available
AB - In this paper, we provide a novel analysis of the affordances and trade‐offs of different strategies for integrating model‐building and experimentation in integrative systems biology. Unimodal strategies rely on collaboration between experimenters and modelers in distinct laboratories. In a bimodal strategy modelers perform their own experiments. Each option has advantages and challenges. In the case of the labs we studied, the choice of strategy often depends on preferences held by lab directors as to the strategy that best achieves certain philosophical objectives concerning what they see as the aims of modeling in systems biology and the epistemic standards to apply to it. We identify an important connection between philosophical divisions in systems biology and the structure of research in systems biology. Better knowledge of these strategies and their philosophical motivations provide insight behind the diversifying structure of the field, and can help lab directors understand the challenges their researchers face, as well as the training and lab organization options available
U2 - 10.1002/jez.b.22568
DO - 10.1002/jez.b.22568
M3 - Article
VL - 322
SP - 230
EP - 239
JO - Journal of Experimental Zoology
JF - Journal of Experimental Zoology
SN - 0022-104X
IS - 4
ER -