Re: MBJC of coming terms

[Mark Kot <kot@amath.washington.edu>]

Hong,

	I certainly like the Goldbeter book.  Let me,
however, add another book to those that you are
already considering:
	
Computational Modeling of Genetic and Biochemical Networks
Edited by James M. Bower and Hamid Bolouri

January 2001
ISBN 0-262-02481-0
390 pp., 126 illus.
$59.95/£41.95 (CLOTH)
                                    
The advent of ever more sophisticated molecular manipulation
techniques has made it clear that cellular systems are far
more complex and dynamic than previously thought. At the
same time, experimental techniques are providing an almost
overwhelming amount of new data. It is increasingly apparent
that linking molecular and cellular structure to function
will require the use of new computational tools.  This book
provides specific examples, across a wide range of molecular
and cellular systems, of how modeling techniques can be used
to explore functionally relevant molecular and cellular
relationships. The modeling techniques covered are applicable
to cell, developmental, structural, and mathematical biology;
genetics; and computational neuroscience. The book, intended
as a primer for both theoretical and experimental biologists,
is organized in two parts: models of gene activity and models
of interactions among gene products. Modeling examples are
provided at several scales for each subject. Each chapter
includes an overview of the biological system in question and
extensive references to important work in the area. 

Contributors:

Hamid Bolouri, Mark T. Borisuk, G. Bormann, James M. Bower,
Dennis Bray, F. Brosens, Jehoshua Bruck, Kathy Chen,
Eric H. Davidson, Alain Destexhe, Bard Ermentrout,
Carl A. J. M. Firth, Stefanie Fuhrman, Michael Andrew Gibson,
William A. Goddard III, Eric Mjolsness, Vaidehi Nagarajan,
Bela Novak, E. de Schutter, Roland Somogyi, John J. Tyson,
Xiling Wen, Chiou Hwa Yiuh. 

					Best wishes,
					
					Mark


	
>Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:09:12 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Hong Qian <qian@rialto.amath.washington.edu>
>To: mbjc@amath.washington.edu
>Subject: MBJC of coming terms
>
>
>Hi, Dear Mathbio fans,
>
>We will have an organization meeting next monday.  I would
>like everyone to think a little about what we would like to 
>do this term.  We should do something BOTH educational to
>everyone (meaning begining students as well as old-timer
>MathBiologists) and can help people to get into exciting
>current research.  
>
>Here are my 2cents:  I think we should spend time on the 
>recent burst of research in the area of metabolic/regulatory
>network modeling.  There are several papers by S. Leibler
>in Nature and Science deserve some scrutiny.  There are also
>the work of Dennis Bray, Adam Arkin who are on the forfront
>of cell modeling.  To the mathematical methodology, there are
>several papers by D.T. Gillespie; and of course, the work from
>UW by Odell et al.  
>
>Along this line, there are several books: T.L. Hill's book
>on biochemical cycle kinetics; D.T. Gillespie's book on 
>Markov processes, and David Fell's book on metabolism, and
>Goldbeter's book on Biochemical Oscillations.  
>
>Some of you might want to check out a few of these references
>so we can have a better idea on these topics. 
>
>Cheers,
>Hong Qian