Stochastic Approaches for Systems Biology

• Main Authors: Ullah, Mukhtar (Author), Wolkenhauer, Olaf (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Bioinformatics.; Systems biology.; Probabilities.; Biomathematics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Systems Biology.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.

This textbook focuses on stochastic modelling and its applications in systems biology. In addition to a review of probability theory, the authors introduce key concepts, including those of stochastic process, Markov property, and transition probability, side by side with notions of biochemical react...

Table of Contents:

• Preface.-  Acknowledgements
• Acronyms, notation
• Matlab functions, revisited examples
• Introduction
• Biochemical reaction networks
• Randomness
• Probability and random variables
• Stochastic modeling of biochemical networks
• The 2MA approach
• The 2MA cell cycle model
• Hybrid Markov processes
• Wet-lab experiments and noise
• Glossary.