Product Description
The genomic revolution has opened up systematic investigations and engineering designs for various life forms. Systems biology and synthetic biology are emerging as two complementary approaches, which embody the breakthrough in biology and invite application of engineering principles. Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology emphasizes the similarity between biology and engineering at the system level, which is important for applying systems and engineering theories to biology problems. This book demonstrates to students, researchers, and industry that systems biology relies on synthetic biology technologies to study biological systems, while synthetic biology depends on knowledge obtained from systems biology approaches.

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Excellent Reference and Introduction by Brandon E. Barker (Ithaca, NY)

5 Stars
April 24, 2009
If you haven't bought a book on systems biology yet, this is the one to get. There are so many aspects of the subject, but this text covers most of them. Almost all chapters stand on their own, and are easy to comprehend as long as you've been exposed to a little biology or math (really only a sprinkling of ODEs, PDEs, and basic matrix algebra in a few places). The book has a very self-contained feel, and I can often take it and read and think for hours without the need of any other source. If you've already been studying system biology, many of the chapters will likely still be useful to you unless you have a small library on the subjects. The final chapter is valuable as it discusses future directions and outstanding problems, as advertised, but also some of the philosophy of systems biology and biology in general. The authors address questions raised by some other experts in the area, e.g. Rosen, and do a good job of it in my opinion.

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