Fundamentals of systems biology from synthetic circuits to whole-cell models
For decades biology has focused on decoding cellular processes one gene at a time, but many of the most pressing biological questions, as well as diseases such as cancer and heart disease, are related to complex systems involving the interaction of hundreds, or even thousands of gene products and ot...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton
CRC Press
2015
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | For decades biology has focused on decoding cellular processes one gene at a time, but many of the most pressing biological questions, as well as diseases such as cancer and heart disease, are related to complex systems involving the interaction of hundreds, or even thousands of gene products and other factors. How do we begin to understand this complexity? Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-cell Models introduces methods they can use to tackle complex systems head-on, carefully walking them through studies that comprise the foundation and frontier of systems biology. The first section of the book focuses on bringing students quickly up to speed with a variety of modeling methods in the context of a synthetic biological circuit. This innovative approach builds intuition about the strengths and weaknesses of each method and becomes critical in the book's second half, where much more complicated network models are addressed - including transcriptional, signaling, metabolic, and even integrated multi-network models. The approach makes the work much more accessible to novices (undergraduates, medical students, and biologists new to mathematical modeling) while still having much more to offer experienced modelers - whether their interests are microbes, organs, whole organisms, diseases, synthetic biology, or just about any field that investigates living systems. -- |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 347 pages illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 9781315222615 1420084100 1498728472 9781498728478 1420084119 1315222612 9781420084115 |