系统生物学解释了复杂生物系统各部分之间的相互作用如何产生更高层次的特性。这个新领域需要融合生物学，计算机科学，应用数学，物理学和工程学等许多学科的概念。鼓励具有这些学科中任何一个背景的学生申请。通过课程和协作研究，我们使学生能够结合实验和理论方法来开发生物过程的物理和定量模型。该计划向学生介绍了现在可用的工具，并帮助他们选择了生物学中尚未解决的重要问题，现在可以使用定量和理论方法来解决这些问题。
Systems biology explains how higher level properties of complex biological systems arise from the interactions among their parts. This new field requires a fusion of concepts from many disciplines, including biology, computer science, applied mathematics, physics, and engineering. Students with backgrounds in any of these disciplines are encouraged to apply. Through coursework and collaborative research, we enable students to combine experimental and theoretical approaches to develop physical and quantitative models of biological processes. The program introduces students to the tools that are now available, and to help them select important unsolved problems in biology that may now be possible to address using quantitative and theoretical approaches.