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Mathematical Biology: I. An Introduction (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics) (Pt. 1) 6 reviews
James D. Murray
Springer, 2007
Excellent book on the subject
+ An excellent biomathematics book with practical applications and exercises
+ Mathematical Biology I
+ Very interesting, worth your money
+ excellent resource
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Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms: The Molecular Bases of Periodic and Chaotic Behaviour1 review
Albert Goldbeter
Cambridge University Press, 1997
Great book on non-linear dynamics of metabolic pathways
Albert Goldbeter wrote in the 70s the first articles with models on the oscillations that arise from positive feed-back regulation on metabolic pathways and since then much work has been done by him and other groups on the non-linear behavior of these systems.
This book has great chapters such ...
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Computational Analysis of Biochemical Systems: A Practical Guide for Biochemists and Molecular Biologists4 reviews
Eberhard O. Voit
Cambridge University Press, 2000
An excellent introductory book on the subject
+ An important bridge between biology and computing
+ fundamentals
+ An excellent introductory book on the subject
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Mathematical Biology II 2 reviews
J.D. Murray
Springer, 2003
Difficult but very good
+ New edition - old book split into two
I bought part I a few years ago. I am an economist interested in using examples from biology to explain and model commercial markets, more as a hobby than as a professional. I recently worked on Lotka-Volterra predator prey models and competitive models (a grey squirrel competing a brown squirrel ...
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On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition 14 reviews
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Dover Publications, 1992
an abridged version of this wondrous book is *also* a good thing
+ a classic beyond compare
+ A classic book, unlike any other
I, too, am a longtime fan of D'Arcy Thompson's endearing (enduring) classic. I've read the discussion. I appreciate very much that Golan Levin, in "Canto: An unfortunate redaction of a timeless classic," and others as well, have made it clear to Amazon customers that the Canto (Cambridge University ...
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The Structure and Dynamics of Networks: (Princeton Studies in Complexity) 4 reviews
Mark Newman, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, ...
Princeton University Press, 2006
Comprehensive literature review
+ Vice President IT Global Business Initiavies
Criticism of this book thus far stems from the following:
1) It is a collection of papers.
2) Some of those papers are fairly technical and may be a little daunting for beginners.
While both of these criticisms are accurate, they don't stop the book from being an excellent resource.
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Computational Cell Biology1 review
Springer, 2005
An excellent overview
As a field of applied mathematics, computational biology has exploded in the last decade, and shows every sign of increasing in the next. This book overviews a few of the topics in the computational modeling of cells. I only read chapters 12 and 13 on molecular motors, and so my review will be ...
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Evolution and the Theory of Games2 reviews
John Maynard Smith
Cambridge University Press, 1982
A Classic and Still Great and Readable Book
With this book, John Maynard Smith initiated a major strand of modern theoretical biology! The book does not require sophisticated mathematical preparation, but it operates on a consistently high level of analytical rigor. It is also very nicely written, with lots of biological examples.
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Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology)1 review
Darren J. Wilkinson
Chapman & Hall, 2006
Correct title: Stochastic modeling of biological systems
This is one of several recent books with system biology in the title, but first book with emphasis on statistics and stochastic approach. The book discusses some simple math models for biological systems, mostly biochemical models. Main focus is on statistical issues in differentail modeling, those ...
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Mathematical Models in Biology (Classics in Applied Mathematics)6 reviews
Leah Edelstein-Keshet
SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2005
An excellent book
+ Classic textbook, with some flaws
+ Excellent
+ math models in biology
+ An excellent book for teaching
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From Clocks to Chaos1 review
Leon Glass, Michael C. Mackey
Princeton University Press, 1988
Good introduction to chaos theory in Biology
This book is a good introduction for those who would like to learn more about how the rythms of the different processes in our organism work. It requires a good knowledge of mathematics (calculus) but has many examples described in pure text.
The analysis focuses mainly in the systemic cycles ...
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Mathematical Physiology4 reviews
James Sneyd
Springer, 2001
All of it fascinating....
+ this is the book about systems biology!!!
+ Graduate level Mathematical Physiology text
This book is an excellent overview of the major research into the mathematics of physiological processes. The first part of the book covers cellular physiology beginning with a discussion of biochemical reactions in the first chapter. Some of the applications of dynamical systems are nicely ...
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Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems (Princeton Landmarks in Biology)1 review
Robert M. May
Princeton University Press, 2001
a classic
A facsimile reprinting of the 1974 Second Edition. It is great that Princeton University Press has made again available this classic work in mathematical biology. There is a wealth of mathematical ideas and methods, carefully written. Several Appendices provide additional mathematical background. ...
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The Geometry of Biological Time2 reviews
Arthur T. Winfree
Springer, 2001
A classic
This book gets better and better with time. The more I know about the topics covered in this book, the more I realize how important the book is and how much is to be learned from it.
For those not familiar with Art Winfree, he was a pioneer in the mathematical and experimental investigation of ...
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Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering (Studies in ...36 reviews
Steven H. Strogatz
Westview Press, 2001
Great read, even casually
+ Excellent introductory text in this topic
+ A must have for researchers in the area
+ Wonderful
+ (Technical + Concept) / Accessability > 1
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Dynamic Models in Biology3 reviews
Stephen P. Ellner, John Guckenheimer
Princeton University Press, 2006
An excellent recent overview of modeling
+ Great book for ecologists
+ Perfect for learning statistical modeling
This is an excellent book for students or faculty interested in learning more about the current state of the art in modeling of biological systems. The authors make a great effort to keep the mathematical sophistication at a level that students (or faculty) who primarily have a biological ...
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Systems Biology in Practice: Concepts, Implementation and Application 2 reviews
Edda Klipp, Ralf Herwig, ...
Wiley-VCH, 2005
A nice book that covers a lot
I'm studying biophysics and I recently bought the book "Systems Biology
in Practice". It is quite expensive, but I wanted to read up about Systems
Biology, since we currently discuss this in our Bioinformatics lectures.
The book consists of three major parts, the first contains three ...
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An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical ...22 reviews
Uri Alon
Chapman & Hall, 2006
An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits
+ Beautiful book: concepts and the big picture
+ Wow! This book elicits such a strong response!
+ Great book for practical learning
+ Great initiation into the field
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Computational Modeling of Genetic and Biochemical Networks (Computational Molecular Biology)3 reviews
The MIT Press, 2004
it's about time!!!
+ Excellent survey of the field
For many years, biologists have been accumulating descriptions of biological "parts" with an almost complete lack of a framework for understanding how those parts might really work together. This book represents the first and so far only example I have seen of an effort to describe modeling ...
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Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life9 reviews
Martin A. Nowak
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006
Exquisite in Every Respect, Two-Fifths Equations & Charts
+ another rave
+ A must for anybody interested in evolution
+ A tremendously interesting book.
+ An engrossing read - highly recommended
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