However, it is becoming clear that we need
to reverse the process, and to study how these components interact to form complex systems.
This poses the question, given the complete
genomic sequence, is it possible to reconstruct the functions of a cellular or biological
system.
The process of reconstructing the
biological system from the reductionist information will rely on bioinformatics to
identify the “parts catalogue” if you
will.
However, the parts catalogue does not
contain functional information.
for example,
listing all the parts of car, does not even begin to describe the how the the automobile works.
Therefore, to understand multigenic
functions, a systems science analysis is required.