Erik De Schutter of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology writes a review in PLoS Computational Biology about the intersection of computational neuroscience and systems biology. In it, he cites data-driven modeling and community-based standards development as two reasons that systems biology has a lot to offer the neuroscience. He talks about the histories of both disciplines, and winds up wondering how the two can interact more in the future. "The field of computational neuroscience will have to explicitly reach out to systems biology and to adapt to some of its conventions," he writes.