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 other factors. How do we begin to understand this complexity?

Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-cell Models introduces students to 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 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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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 other factors. How do we begin to understand this complexity?

Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-cell Models introduces students to 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 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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Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-cell Models

Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-cell Models

by Markus W. Covert
Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-cell Models

Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-cell Models

by Markus W. Covert

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Overview

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 students to 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 to offer experienced modelers--whether their interests are microbes, organs, whole organisms, diseases, synthetic biology, or just about any field that investigates living systems.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781000055016
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication date: 10/19/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

Markus Covert is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University. He has received the National Institute of Health Director’s Pioneer Award and an Allen Distinguished Investigator Award from the Paul Allen Family Foundation. He is best known for the development of the first “whole-cell” computational model of a bacterial cell.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Systems Biology. Biological Networks. High-throughput Data and the Omics Revolution. Biological Network Structure. From Network Diagrams to Computational Models. Studying the Dynamic Behavior of Biological Systems. Toward a Whole-Cell Model: Qualitative and Constraint-Based Approaches. How Cells Respond to Random Internal and External Fluctuations. Capturing Differences and Interactions between Cells. Systems Biology as a Community.

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