Particularly from year 2000 onwards, the concept has been used widely in biology in a variety of contexts. The [[Human Genome Project]] is an example of applied [[systems thinking]] in biology which has led to new, collaborative ways of working on problems in the biological field of genetics.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zewail|first1=Ahmed|title=Physical Biology: From Atoms to Medicine|date=2008|publisher=Imperial College Press|page=339}}</ref> One of the aims of systems biology is to model and discover [[emergent property|emergent properties]], properties of [[cell (biology)|cell]]s, [[tissue (biology)|tissue]]s and [[organism]]s functioning as a [[system]] whose theoretical description is only possible using techniques of systems biology.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Perspectives on Organisms - Springer|last=Longo|first=Giuseppe|last2=Montévil|first2=Maël|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-35938-5|series=Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis|year=2014|isbn=978-3-642-35937-8}}</ref><ref name="Tavassoly 487–500"/> These typically involve [[metabolic networks]] or [[cell signaling]] networks.<ref name="pmid21570668">{{cite book|author=Bu Z, Callaway DJ|title=Protein Structure and Diseases|volume=83|pages=163–221|year=2011|pmid=21570668|doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-381262-9.00005-7|series=Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology|isbn=978-0-123-81262-9|chapter=Proteins MOVE! Protein dynamics and long-range allostery in cell signaling}}</ref><ref name="Tavassoly 487–500"/> | Particularly from year 2000 onwards, the concept has been used widely in biology in a variety of contexts. The [[Human Genome Project]] is an example of applied [[systems thinking]] in biology which has led to new, collaborative ways of working on problems in the biological field of genetics.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zewail|first1=Ahmed|title=Physical Biology: From Atoms to Medicine|date=2008|publisher=Imperial College Press|page=339}}</ref> One of the aims of systems biology is to model and discover [[emergent property|emergent properties]], properties of [[cell (biology)|cell]]s, [[tissue (biology)|tissue]]s and [[organism]]s functioning as a [[system]] whose theoretical description is only possible using techniques of systems biology.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Perspectives on Organisms - Springer|last=Longo|first=Giuseppe|last2=Montévil|first2=Maël|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-35938-5|series=Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis|year=2014|isbn=978-3-642-35937-8}}</ref><ref name="Tavassoly 487–500"/> These typically involve [[metabolic networks]] or [[cell signaling]] networks.<ref name="pmid21570668">{{cite book|author=Bu Z, Callaway DJ|title=Protein Structure and Diseases|volume=83|pages=163–221|year=2011|pmid=21570668|doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-381262-9.00005-7|series=Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology|isbn=978-0-123-81262-9|chapter=Proteins MOVE! Protein dynamics and long-range allostery in cell signaling}}</ref><ref name="Tavassoly 487–500"/> |