Understanding Cancer from a Systems Biology Point of View: From Observation to Theory and Back starts with a basic question, why do we sometimes observe accelerated metastatic growth after resection of primary tumors? Next, it helps readers understand the systemic nature of cancer and how it affects treatment approaches and decisions. The book puts together aspects of cancer that many readers have most likely never combined, using unfamiliar, novel methods. It is a valuable resource for cancer researchers, cancer biologists, mathematicians and members of the biomedical field who are interested in applying systems biology methodologies for understanding and treating cancer. Explains the systemic nature of cancer and how it affects decisions on treatment Brings a variety of methods together, showing, in detail, the logical approach to finding answers to complex questions Discusses the theoretical underpinnings of cancer as a systemic disease, providing the reader with valuable information on applicable cases

Systems biology combines computational and experimental approaches to analyze complex biological systems and focuses on understanding functional activities from a systems-wide perspective. It provides an iterative process of experimental measurements, data analysis, and computational simulation to model biological behavior. This book provides explained protocols for high-throughput experiments and computational analysis procedures central to cancer systems biology research and education. Readers will learn how to generate and analyze high-throughput data, therapeutic target protein structure modeling and docking simulation for drug discovery. This is the first practical guide for students and scientists who wish to become systems biologists or utilize the approach for cancer research. Contents: Introduction to Cancer Systems Biology (Hsueh-Fen Juan and Hsuan-Cheng Huang)Transcriptome Analysis: Library Construction (Hsin-Yi Chang and Hsueh-Fen Juan)Quantitative Proteome: The Isobaric Tags for Relative and Absolute Quantitation (iTRAQ) (Yi-Hsuan Wu and Hsueh-Fen Juan)Phosphoproteome: Sample Preparation (Chia-Wei Hu and Hsueh-Fen Juan)Transcriptomic Data Analysis: RNA-Seq Analysis Using Galaxy (Chia-Lang Hsu and Chantal Hoi Yin Cheung)Proteomic Data Analysis: Functional Enrichment (Hsin-Yi Chang and Hsueh-Fen Juan)Phosphorylation Data Analysis (Chia-Lang Hsu and Wei-Hsuan Wang)Pathway and Network Analysis (Chen-Tsung Huang and Hsueh-Fen Juan)Dynamic Modeling (Yu-Chao Wang)Protein Structure Modeling (Chia-Hsien Lee and Hsueh-Fen Juan)Docking Simulation (Chia-Hsien Lee and Hsueh-Fen Juan) Readership: Graduate students and researchers entering the cancer systems biology field. Keywords: Systems Biology;Transcriptomics;Proteomics;Network Biology;Dynamic Modeling;Protein Structure Modeling;Docking Simulation;BioinformaticsReview: Key Features: Written by two active researchers in the fieldCovers both experimental and computational areas in cancer systems biologyStep-by-step instructions help beginners who are interested in creating biological data and analyzing the data by themselvesReaders will gain the skills to generate and analyze omics data and discover potential therapeutic targets and drug candidates

With over two hundred types of cancer diagnosed to date, researchers the world over have been forced to rapidly update their understanding of the biology of cancer. In fact, only the study of the basic cellular processes, and how these are altered in cancer cells, can ultimately provide a background for rational therapies. Bringing together the state-of-the-art contributions of international experts, Systems Biology of Cancer proposes an ultimate research goal for the whole scientific community: exploiting systems biology to generate in-depth knowledge based on blueprints that are unique to each type of cancer. Readers are provided with a realistic view of what is known and what is yet to be uncovered on the aberrations in the fundamental biological processes, deregulation of major signaling networks, alterations in major cancers and the strategies for using the scientific knowledge for effective diagnosis, prognosis and drug discovery to improve public health.

This exciting SpringerBrief presents evidence for new ideas that will challenge several theories of how cancer biology is understood. Cancer biology has undergone several intellectual revolutions in the past 50 years. A mutation-centric view of cancer has given way to the tumor microenvironment view. Reductionistic studies of one gene at a time have given way to systems biology approaches that analyze the whole genome (omics) at the same time. However, this text combines the complex levels studying cancer at the molecular biology level, endocrinology level, and transcriptomics level. What researchers are now realizing is that there is a need to combine omics with physiology concepts in order to better understand cancer and this book will give insight to the merging of these two fields in order to define how cancer is studied in the future.​

The book shows how mathematical and computational models can be used to study cancer biology. It introduces the concept of mathematical modeling and then applies it to a variety of topics in cancer biology. These include aspects of cancer initiation and progression, such as the somatic evolution of cells, genetic instability, and angiogenesis. The book also discusses the use of mathematical models for the analysis of therapeutic approaches such as chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and the use of oncolytic viruses.

This volume presents an overview of recent developments in systems biology and their applications in cancer-related research. The ongoing advances in our understanding of genomics and proteomics, coupled with the development of new and more robust tools, have led to an emphasis on analyzing biological systems at multiple levels. Thus, there is a need to integrate different types of data into a comprehensive “systems” view.Written by active researchers in the emerging areas, this book gives senior undergraduate students, graduate students and new researchers an idea of where the frontiers of systems biology are and an opportunity to learn high-throughput techniques in use. One of the particular emphases of the book is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms in cancer. The discovery of biomarkers and anti-cancer drugs using systems biology approach is also extensively discussed.