Virtual biology

Virtual biology is umbrella for systems ology sciences:

• systems biology
• systems physiology
• systems pharmacology.

Roughly they corresponds:

• systems biology - virtual cell
• systems physiology - virtual human and physiological models of other high eukaryote organism, for example virtual rat.
• systems pharmacology - virtual patient.

The core of all systems ology sciences are mathematical models that should reproduce dynamics of corresponding biological systems.

Projects

There are a number of ongoing large international projects that we can attribute to virtual biology.

Some of them explicitly include word 'virtual' in their title:

• virtual cell[ ],
• virtual liver[],
• virtual physiological rat [1],
• virtual physiological human[],
• virtual patient[].

Category:virtual biology projects contains more complete list of these projects.