Subject Area and Category
Publication type
Journals
Scope
Network biology is a science that deals with the structure, function, regulation (control), design, and application, etc., of various biological networks. It is an interdisciplinary science based on life sciences (biology, ecology, medicine, etc.), mathematics and systems science (graph theory, network science, complexity theory, etc.), computational science (computation methods, programming), statistics, etc.
The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. The topics to be covered by Network Biology include, but are not limited to:
Theories, algorithms and programs of network analysis
Evolution, dynamics, optimization and control of biological networks
Network construction, link prediction
Network topology, topological analysis, relationship between topological structure and network functions, sensitivity analysis, network robustness and stability
Network flow analysis
Design and formulation of biological networks
Ecological networks, food webs and natural equilibrium, co-evolution, co-extinction, biodiversity conservation
Metabolic networks, protein-protein interaction networks, biochemical reaction networks, gene networks, transcriptional regulatory networks, cell cycle networks, phylogenetic networks, network motifs and modules
Physiological networks, social networks, epidemiological networks
Network regulation of metabolic processes, human diseases and ecological systems
System complexity, self-organization, emergence of biological systems, agent-based modeling, neural network modeling, and other network-based modeling, etc.
Big data analytics of biological networks