An Introduction to Systems Biology

Praise for the first edition:

¿ superb, beautifully written and organized work that takes an engineering approach to systems biology. Alon provides nicely written appendices to explain the basic mathematical and biological concepts clearly and succinctly without interfering with the main text. He starts with a mathematical description of transcriptional activation and then describes some basic transcription-network motifs (patterns) that can be combined to form larger networks. ¿ Nature

[This text deserves] serious attention from any quantitative scientist who hopes to learn about modern biology ¿ It assumes no prior knowledge of or even interest in biology ¿ One final aspect that must be mentioned is the wonderful set of exercises that accompany each chapter. ¿ Alon¿s book should become a standard part of the training of graduate students. ¿ Physics Today

Written for students and researchers, the second edition of this best-