Inspired by the brilliant Economics/Sociology Phrase Book by Jeffrey A. Smith and Kermit Daniel, I present a Systems Biology phrase book for translating from Normal Biology to Systems Biology and vice versa. This is a work in progress and will expand as I run across dumb phrases.
Biology to Systems Biology
Statistically significant => irreproducible
Highly statistically significant => tiny effect size
Model => cartoon
Mathematical model => one differential equation
Systems Biology to Biology
Model => ball of spaghetti
Big data => spurious correlation goldmine