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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Systems immunology: When systems biology meets immunology.

Lucía Alfonso-González, Francisco J Fernández, M Cristina Vega

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lucía Alfonso-GonzálezAbvance Biotech SL, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism (PPDM), Madrid, Spain.
Francisco J Fernández *Abvance Biotech SL, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism (PPDM), Madrid, Spain.
M Cristina Vega *Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas (CIB-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The immune system is an intricate network of cells, proteins, and signaling pathways that coordinate protective responses and, when dysregulated, drive immune-related diseases. Understanding this complexity increasingly relies on systems-based mathematical and computational approaches, which integrate multi-omics data, mechanistic models, and artificial intelligence to reveal the emergent behavior of immune networks. In this mini-review, we discuss the central methodological pillars of systems immunology, including Network Pharmacology, artificial intelligence, and quantitative systems pharmacology. We highlight illustrative applications spanning autoimmune, inflammatory, and infectious diseases, and describe how these methods are used to identify biomarkers, optimize therapies, and guide drug discovery. Finally, we examine current challenges and future directions, including data quality, model validation, and regulatory considerations, which must be addressed to translate systems immunology into clinical impact. This integrated perspective aims to guide both method developers and translational researchers, emphasizing the growing role of computational modeling in next-generation immunology and therapeutic innovation.

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Allergy and ImmunologyImmune SystemSystems BiologyAnimalsArtificial IntelligenceDrug DiscoveryHumansImmunoinformaticsNetwork Pharmacologyartificial intelligencebioinformaticsimmunologymechanistic modelsnetwork pharmacologyquantitative systems pharmacologysystems biologysystems immunology

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PMID40977698
PMCPMC12447193

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