Althoughvariousgenomeprojectshaveprovidedusenormousstaticsequenceinformation,understandingofthesophisticatedbiologycontinuestorequireintegratingthecomputationalmodeling,systemanalysis,technologydevelopmentforexperiments,andquantitativeexperimentsalltogethertoanalyzethebiologyarchitectureonvariouslevels,whichisjusttheoriginofsystemsbiologysubject.Thisreviewdiscussestheobject,itscharacteristics,andresearchattentionsinsystemsbiology,andsummarizestheanalysismethods,experimentaltechnologies,researchdevelopments,andsooninthefourkeyfieldsofsystemsbiology-systemicstructures,dynamics,controlmethods,anddesignprinciples.