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Nature 403, 591 (10 February 2000) | doi:10.1038/35001228
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A recent News story reported that a US-based "multi-laboratory, multidisciplinary initiative" called the Alliance for Cellular Signalling (AFCS) seeks to provide a more integrated view of cell-signalling pathways ( Nature, 402, 219; 1999). To accomplish this, the AFCS hopes to "map how molecules in a cell interact" without bias towards particular proteins, through the collaborative efforts of systems engineers, biologists and informaticists.
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