Upon the completion of the Human Genome Project, the lead investigator, Dr. Francis Collins remarked: Science is a voyage of exploration into the unknown. We are here today to celebrate a milestone along a truly unprecedented voyage, this one into ourselves. Alexander Pope wrote, “Know then thyself. Presume not God to scan. The proper study … Continued
The scope of PBPK modeling can be expanded by assimilating mechanistic models of intracellular processes from the Systems Biology field. Genome scale metabolic networks (GSMNs) represent whole sets of metabolic enzymes expressed in human tissues. Dynamic models of the gene regulation of key drug metabolism enzymes are also available. Here, we introduce GSMNs and review ongoing work on integrating PBPK, GSMNs and metabolic gene regulation. We demonstrate example models.
