Can Complex Network Physics Revolutionize Systems Biology and Other Fields?

[pjmarshall]

Haven't really seen much discussion about this field, but it seems interesting. It appears to have some promise in systems biology, but what about in other fields? What kind of material will arise from this field? Is thermoeconomics mostly pseudoscience, or just undeveloped?

 

[schip666!]

Check out Mark Newman at UMich: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/

Network modeling is used in epidemiology and social sciences to some effect but I think it's on the low end of the development curve still.

Hadn't heard of "thermoeconomics". Looks like it might be interesting. But I didn't see any connection to networks...

 

[pjmarshall]

Thanks for the link. (personally) I'm specifically looking at its applications to biology.

 

[schip666!]

I poked a bit and found this pubmed link on the wikip "Biological network inference" page:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1828748/?tool=pmcentrez
The refs to Bonneau, etal papers look promising. Lots of stuff going on in DNA regulation networks.

Some of my ecologist friends are behind this work on "food webs":
http://www.foodwebs.org/
Where this chapter is a little more network specific:
http://www.primes.colostate.edu/Workshops/Networks/Dunne2006.pdf

 

[schip666!]

Huh, whadaya know...econophysics by Seth Lloyd right here, soon:

http://www.santafe.edu/gevent/detail/science/394/