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This chapter provides an overview of key topics that serve as background for the rest of the book. First, we discuss the roles of proteins in living organisms.

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Bhowmick, S.S., Seah, BS. (2017). Background. In: Summarizing Biological Networks. Computational Biology, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54621-6_2

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