Books

We have one strongly suggested textbook for the course:

  • Alon, An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits, 2nd Ed., CRC Press, 2020.

The following books are also useful.

  • Del Vecchio and Murray, Biomolecular Feedback Systems. This book is also a great resource. You can get PDFs from the book wiki.

  • Phillips, Kondev, Theriot, and Garcia, Physical Biology of the Cell, 2nd Ed., Garland Scientific, 2012. This book has good analysis of physical bases for the regulation of gene expression.

  • Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering, 2nd Ed., Westview Press, 2014. This book gives a good pedagogical background on the analysis of dynamical systems.