Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology

Using Modern Discrete Models
Herausgeber: Robeva, Raina; Hodge, Terrell

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on ongoing research and the national initiative toward the "new biology" and increasing efforts to apply quantitative (mathematical) approaches to biological questions, this work offers a framework to systematically analyze, predict, and modulate the behavior of complex biological systems. The book offers a collection of topics designed around the principle of project-based learning, focusing on problem solving that emphasizes important mathematical concepts and methods in the context of essential questions raised in biology. The use of free open software to facilitate some of the computationally heavy techniques within the work for which hand computations are not feasible is included.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 197mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 933g
• ISBN-13: 9780124157804
• ISBN-10: 0124157807
• Artikelnr.: 36684236

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Raina Robeva and Terrell Hodge1. Mechanisms for Gene Regulation:
A Boolean Network Model of the Lac Operon2. Epigenetic Features of the Lac
Operon: Comparing Boolean and Ordinary Differential Equations Models3.
Inferring the Topology of Gene Regulatory Networks: An Algebraic Approach
to Reverse Engineering4. Global Dynamics Emerging from Local Interactions:
Agent-based Modeling for the Life Sciences5. Agent-based Models and Optimal
Control in Biology: An Algebraic Approach6. Neuronal Networks: A Discrete
Model7. Predicting Plant Population Growth: Modeling with Projection
Matrices8. Metabolic Pathways Analysis: A Linear Algebraic Approach9.
Identifying CpG Islands: Sliding Windows and Hidden Markov Models10. Codon
Usage: From Elementary Probability to Algebraic Geometry11. Phylogenetic
Tree Reconstruction: Geometric Approaches