This course focuses on systems biology which is a recent area of science that links general medical scientific research approaches with "large-scale" analyses. The overall goal of systems biology science is to connect complex biological networks with biochemical and physiological outcomes. Systems biology platforms include many of the "omic" disciplines such as: genomics, epigenetics, transcriptomics, network signaling, metabolomics, interactomics, lipidomics, and proteomics. Links between cellular physiology and systems biology have profound significance to our understanding of general physiology.

This course will teach students of these recent developments, and importantly, enable them to extract and utilize information at the systems biology level. The course will begin with a set of general lecture overviews of the approaches available, basic theory, and application. The remaining lectures will be student-driven, seminar-based discussions with faculty members as facilitators of this discussion. We will cover the major systems biology literature and technical approaches.