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A First Course in Systems Biology
About this book
A First Course in Systems Biology, Third Edition is an introduction to the growing field of systems biology for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Its focus is the design and analysis of computational models and their applications to diverse biomedical phenomena, from simple networks and kinetics to complex pathway systems, signal transduction, personalized medicine, and interacting populations. The book begins with the fundamentals of computational modeling, then reviews features of the molecular inventories that bring biological systems to life and ends with case studies that reflect some of the frontiers in systems biology. In this way, the First Course provides the reader with a comprehensive background and with access to methods for executing standard tasks of biomedical systems analysis, exposure to the modern literature, and a foundation for launching into specialized projects that address biomedical questions with theoretical and computational means.
This third edition has been thoroughly updated. It provides an introduction to agent-based and multiscale modeling, a deeper account of biological design principles, and the optimization of metabolic flux distributions. This edition also discusses novel topics of synthetic biology, personalized medicine, and virtual clinical trials that are just emerging on the horizon of this field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Biological Systems
- Chapter 2: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling
- Chapter 3: Static Network Models
- Chapter 4: Discrete Biological Systems
- Chapter 5: Continuous Biological Systems
- Chapter 6: Optimal Models
- Chapter 7: Gene Systems
- Chapter 8: Protein Systems
- Chapter 9: Metabolic Systems
- Chapter 10: Signaling Systems
- Chapter 11: Multiscale Modeling and Agent-Based Simulations
- Chapter 12: Physiological Modeling: The Heart as an Example
- Chapter 13: Systems Biology in Medicine and Drug Development
- Chapter 14: Population Systems
- Chapter 15: Emerging Topics in Systems Biology
- Glossary
- Index