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Science 23 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5879, pp. 1013 - 1014
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157405
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INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY:
What Systems Biology Is (Not, Yet)

Corey J. Cain,* Debra A. Conte, Marcos E. García-Ojeda, Liza Gómez Daglio, Larry Johnson, Eric H. Lau, Jennifer O. Manilay, Julie Baker Phillips, Nabora Soledad Rogers, Sarah E. Stolberg, Holly F. Swift, and Michael N. Dawson1

Systems Biology
Philosophical Foundations
Fred C. Boogerd, Frank J. Bruggeman, Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr, and Hans V. Westerhoff, Eds.
Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2007. 360 pp. $120, £68.99, €99.95. ISBN 9780444520852.

An Introduction to Systems Biology
Design Principles of Biological Circuits
by Uri Alon
Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2006. 317 pp. $54.95, £30.99. ISBN 9781584886426. Mathematical and Computational Biology, vol. 10.

Students and faculty from an interdisciplinary graduate class on systems biology review two books that offer a variety of perspectives on the field. Alon provides an analytical approach, whereas Boogerd et al. focus on philosophical aspects.
1The reviewers are students and faculty in the Current Topics in Quantitative and Systems Biology class (2007-2008), School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, Post Office Box 2039, Merced, CA 95340, USA.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: ccain{at}ucmerced.edu

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