Global systems include the environmental, political, legal, economic, financial, and cultural systems that help to make and remake the world.

What are the main global systems?

There are four principal global systems: environmental, political, economical and social which are intrinsically connected. These are the ones in charge of shaping the world, from a local scale to a global scale and yes, humans play a significant role intervening somehow in all the systems already mentioned.

What are global systems biology?

If we are to capture the full power of systems biology and new genomic tools for drug discovery we need to measure and model the whole system, which includes the environmental factors. This is ‘global’ systems biology; simple pathway analysis alone is unlikely to suffice for explaining many disease processes.