Systems and mathematics »

February 2010

Mathematical and bioinformatics tools are being increasingly used to study biological phenomena. Mathematical models help us to understand complex relationships between intra- and extracellular components that cannot be explained by a 'one-gene-one-function' reductionist approach. In the current issue of Microbiology Today we investigate exactly how new systems biology methods can be applied to the study of microbes. We explore how road mapping can provide insight into bacterial pathogenesis, discover why viruses use complex symmetry for more than just aesthetic purposes and see how maths can reveal the mystery of how bacterial proteins always manage to reach their target destination. Read on »

Last updated 5 February 2010

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