Systems Biology Lecture 1
Why Biology Stack Exchange recommends it
Biology Stack Exchange users point people to it as an accessible introduction to systems biology when asked for online lectures or a way into the field.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2011 to 2013.
What it is
The first lecture of a systems biology course taught by Prof. Uri Alon at the Weizmann Institute of Science, running about 1.5 hours. It treats living cells as condensed matter shaped by evolution to perform functions and looks at gene and protein circuits as computational devices, along with analysis of large biological networks.
What people said
Recommends dsign · 2011-12 · Biology Stack Exchange · on “Online Molecular and Cellular Biology Video Lectures?”
This one is not precisely molecular and cell biology, but rather systems biology. It might help you as some kind of introduction, though: Systems biology lecture 1 [this video] Also, if you are really really new to the subject, you can probably use "Molecular and Cell Biology for Dummies".
Recommends Bitwise · 2012-10 · Biology Stack Exchange · on “Short-term Lamarckism in asexual single cell organisms”
This phenomenon is well known and can be observed in several species. In fact, if you look at the time it takes for E. coli to change its transcription program in order to react to the environment (signal->transcription->translation), you will find it can be longer than its ~20 minute doubling time. You can indeed think of it as a form of Lamarckism. However, it is part of a field that has been booming in the last ~10 years, known as epigenetics [LINK] . Epigenetics is a field of research that deals with hereditary information that is passed by non-genetic mechanisms, i.e. not in the DNA sequence. This includes several mechanisms including passing of proteins/RNA, chemical modifications of D
Cites Mattia Rovetta · 2013-05 · Biology Stack Exchange · on “Recent and good quality articles on systems biology”
I'm a biotechnology student and I have to write a sort of non-experimental thesis (30 pages long) within the end of a three years study. I'm very interested in the " systems biology [LINK] " field and I'm searching good (innovative) and recent (max 3-4 years old) articles about this subject, but unfortunately I've found my research more difficult than I expected. I'd like to focus on not immediate/easy articles and possibly containing new and promising approaches. Does anybody have suggestions? PS: it all started from Uri Alon's great lessons on YouTube [this video] .