Understanding the Dynamics of Biological Systems: Lessons Learned from Integrative Systems Biology

by Werner Dubitzky (Editor), Jennifer Southgate (Editor), Hendrik Fuï (Editor)

Overview

This book is intended as a communication platform to bridge the cultural, conceptual, and technological gap among the key systems biology disciplines of biology, mathematics, and information technology. To support this goal, contributors were asked to adopts an approach that appeals to audiences from different backgrounds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441979636
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	01/20/2011
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Preface.- Effects of Protein Quality Control Machinery on Protein Homeostasis.- Metabolic Network Dynamics: Properties and Principles.- A Deterministic, Mathematical Model for Hormonal Control of the Menstrual Cycle.- Modelling Transport Processes and their Implications for Chemical Disposition and Action.- Systems Biology of Tuberculosis: Insights for Drug Discovery.- Qualitative Analysis of Genetic Regulatory Networks in Bacteria.- Modelling Antibiotic Resistance in Bacterial Colonies Using Agent-Based Approach.- Modelling the Spatial Pattern Forming Modules in Mitotic Spindle Assembly.- Cell-Centred Modelling of Tissue Behaviour.- Interaction-Based Simulations for Integrative Spatial Systems Biology.- Glossary.- Index.