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Figure 1.

Figure 1.

The goal of systems biology. A conventional approach to a clinical trial (left) uses large numbers of people (10,000 in the figure), and each of them is monitored for a few parameters about safety and efficacy. This is an ideal framework for future clinical trials (right), in which more information could be gained by analyzing thousands of readouts collected from a limited number of people (10 in the figure), using high-throughput technologies and systems biology.