Commentary abstract


Nature Physics 2, 212 - 214 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys231

Simplifying biological complexity

B. T. Grenfell1, C. S. Williams1, O. N. Bjørnstad1 and J. R. Banavar2

  1. Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Biology Department, 208 Mueller Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
  2. The Department of Physics, 104 Davey Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.


There are huge and growing opportunities for fruitful interactions between physicists and biologists. Understanding how key components of a biological system interact across organizational levels is a major challenge, requiring an intimate link between theory and biological data.

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