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	• An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical ... Uri Alon Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2006 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good Book

Systems biology is a developing field and uses theoretical constructs across disciplines in investigating complex biological systems/processes. I am planing to use excerpts from it for my graduate course in systems biology. I have high regard for Dr. Alon's continued efforts in this area. I am positive that this concise book would be well-received by several researchers and students.

A treasure

This book is a real treasure. I always recommend it to new students arriving at my lab. Not only does it give them a clear and elegant introduction to the field of "systems biology"; it actually inspires them to think in simple, yet quantitative, terms about living systems.

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excellent book

I used this book as the text for a graduate course in computational systems biology in the spring semester 2009. This book is an excellent text. It presents a lot of insights of how components in biological systems may work together. At the end of the semester, students from biology as well as computer science wrote me emails saying they enjoyed the class. It was not because my teaching rather the rich contents of the book.

Biology is a scientific area with a long history. A large amount of knowledge has accumulated in understanding details of single components in biological systems. It is the time to open a new field in biology, the study of systems biology. Apparently, systems biology is interdisciplinary. Because of this, the insights presented in this book is very much useful. I happened to read a couple of recent articles (some of which were in PNAS). In these articles, the idea of motif was used to find networks that control developmental processes based upon data collected in experiments. I believe this book would become classic in systems biology, and very much hope the author would continue the work to produce new edition(s) in the future.

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delightful reading

Uri Alon searches for the most recurrent connectivity patterns (motifs) found in natural networks and then analyze their dynamical properties in detail. Although simple, the consequences of having these motifs (and combinations of them) in gene regulatory networks are not always easy to grasp, and the author makes a good job clarifying their function. Despite some mathematical fluency is assumed, I think the simplicity of his language, added to the explanatory figures accompanying the text, makes it easy to read and understand. A must for 'Systems Biology' oriented people, and a good lecture for any student interested in the field.

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Elegant and thorough introduction to systems biology

This is a great book! It manages to convey the new ideas of systems biology with clarity and without sacrificing scientific rigor.
Whether you're a biologist, physicist or engineer this book will be perfect for you as it encompasses the many disciplines that make up systems biology.
Many universities (including Harvard) are using this book as their textbook for introductory courses to systems biology. This is a testament to its clearness and thoroughness. There are also excellent homework type problems at the end of each chapter, and a solution manual is available from the author for class instructors.
As a graduate student of systems biology I found this book very useful and I highly recommend it!

Important:
Disregard the 4 reviews that give this book a low rating! I wonder if they are related, as they all are from July 09, and argue the exact same thing: that the modeling of biology described in the book is not representative of biology. This is a philosophical argument that by no means reduces the importance, relevance and scientific depth of this book. Discussions as to what is systems biology should not be conducted using Amazon book reviews.

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