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Review
. 2004 May 10;165(3):299-303.
doi: 10.1083/jcb.200404013. Epub 2004 May 3.

All systems go

Kendall Powell  1
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Review

All systems go

Kendall Powell. J Cell Biol. .

Abstract

Reductionism has served cell biologists well in the past decades, but systems biologists are now promising to broaden the picture. The challenge will be to provide not just the lists and quantitation but real mechanistic insights.

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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Bacteria expressing CFP and YFP from identical promoters can be used to indicate levels of both intrinsic noise (left; red to green) and extrinsic noise (right; light and bright yellow). Elowitz/AAAS
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Clustered network modules give a better sense of organization than long lists of genes. Galitski/CSH
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The behavior of a bead attached to a rotating flagellum (white circle, shown in three successive positions) can be correlated with changing concentrations of intracellular molecules. Cluzel/AAAS
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