Systems Biology Weathers the Storm :The Scientist [2009-03-01]


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	By Elie Dolgin

Systems Biology Weathers the Storm ast December, in the face of one of the worst winter storms in decades, the Institute for Systems Biology declared a snow day. Most researchers stayed home, and a calm stillness transcended the Institute's three-story home overlooking Seattle's snow-crested Lake Union. Rows of stacked PCR machines sat unused, and the room full of mass spectrometry machines was silent—hardly