Mathematical concepts and methods in modern biology using modern discrete models - Robeva, Raina S.; Hodge, Terrell L. (Amsterdam Elsevier/Academic Press, 2013)
Ch. 1. Mechanisms of gene regulation: boolean network models of the lactose operon in Escherichia coli / Raina Robeva, Bessie Kirkwood and Robin Davies -- Ch. 2. Bistability in the lactose operon of Escherichia coli: a comparison of differential equation and boolean network models / Raina Robeva and Necmettin Yildririm -- Ch. 3. Inferring the topology of gene regulatory networks: an algebraic approach to reverse engineering / Brandilyn Stigler and Elena Dimitrova -- Ch. 4. Global dynamics emerging from local interactions: agent-based modeling for the life sciences / David Gammack, Elsa Schaefer and Holly Gaff -- Ch. 5. Agent-based models and optimal control in biology: a discrete approach / Reinhard Laubenbacher, Franziska Hinkelmann and Matt Oremland -- Ch. 6. Neuronal networks: a discrete model / Winfried Just, Sungwoo Ahn and David Terman -- Ch. 7. Predicting population growth: modeling with projection matrices / Janet Steven and James Kirkwood -- Ch. 8. Metabolic pathways analysis: a linear algebraic approach / Terrell L. Hodge -- Ch. 9. Identifying CpG islands: sliding window and hidden Markov model approaches / Raina Robeva, Aaron Garrett, James Kirkwood and Robin Davies -- Ch. 10. Phylogenetic tree reconstruction: geometric approaches / David Haws, Terrell L. Hodge and Ruriko Yoshida.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Biomathematics; Biology -- Mathematical models; Biological systems -- Mathematical models