Re: MBJC of coming terms

[Mineo Morohashi <moro@caltech.edu>]

A book titled "Foundations of Systems Biology" (ed. Hiroaki Kitano)
will be published from MIT Press, probably by next month. The book is
based on the contents of procceedings of 1st International Conference
on Systems Biology(ICSB2000) held in Tokyo last November. This might
be of your help.

Mineo

> 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
>