We have the opportunity to write a headline review for Journal of the Royal Society Interface on a topic overlapping the computer and life sciences in the area of systems pharmacology. Our aim is to have the paper ready to submit by November 1, 2016.

A Headline Review is one in a short, targeted series of high-level reviews within a particular topic of a burgeoning research area. We encourage authors to write in a style that opens the door to a broad range of readers working at the physical sciences - life sciences interface. We intend the reviews to address critical developments in an area of cross-disciplinary research and, when possible, to place such research in a broader context. This is not a place for comprehensive literature surveys.

We do encourage you to speculate in an informed way, and to be topical and provocative about the subject without worrying unduly about space, (the provisional target length is 8 -12,000 words). Please think of this as an article which will be a landmark in your area, and will come to be considered as a classic paper of the literature.

I was recently inspired by Harold Pimentel's crowd-sourced collection of deep learning papers. Instead of having one individual write this, I thought that this invitation provided a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of the wisdom of crowds to bring a team together around this topic.

This repository provides a home for the paper. We'll operate on a pull request model. Anyone whose contributions meet the ICJME standards of authorship will be included as an author on the manuscript. I can't guarantee that it will be accepted, but I look forward to trying this approach out.