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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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Grenfell, B., Williams, C., Bjørnstad, O. et al. Simplifying biological complexity. Nature Phys 2, 212–214 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys231
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