Detalle de: Functional study of biological networks

The study of living systems from a network perspective is providing new biological knowledge which could have never been obtained from the study of the individual components (genes, proteins, …) no matter how detailed it was. We are studying metabolic networks (central metabolism and biodegradation) and protein interaction networks from this new “top-down” approach. Of special interest for us is the study of the complex phenomenon of “protein function” from a systemic perspective, trying to understand how complex functions arise by combining the molecular functions of proteins when these interact in intricate networks.