Systems biology is a holistic approach in biomedical research to understanding the larger picture at the level of :
organism,
tissue,
or cell
by putting its pieces together.
It's a contrast to reductionist biology, which involves seeing things in isolation
Automated DNA sequencers enabled the sequencing of genomes; microarray and mass spectrometry analysis permit global transcriptional profiling and lead to large-scale proteomic and metabolomics analysis.
These high-throughput data need to be interpreted by bioinformatics.
