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In this paper we analyze the equilibrium properties of a large class of stochastic processes describing the fundamental biological process within bacterial cells, \\em the production process of proteins. Human genome, dna, bioinformatics, sequence analysis, evolution. Mathematical modeling in systems biology the mit press. Mathematical modeling can be a powerful tool for understanding biologically observed phenomena which cannot be understood by verbal reasoning alone. Mathematical models are used in the natural sciences such as physics, biology, earth science, meteorology and engineering disciplines e.
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Mathematical modeling has been applied to biological systems for decades, but with respect to gene expression, too few molecular components have been known to build useful, predictive models. You can choose from several modeling environments, enabling you to describe your system programmatically, symbolically, or with block diagrams and state machines. An introduction to the mathematical concepts and techniques needed for the construction and analysis of models in molecular systems biology. This book developed from classes in mathematical biology taught by the authors over several years at the technische universitat munchen.
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