Dynamic Models in Biology

Stephen P. Ellner, John Guckenheimer

352 pages, parution le 29/05/2006

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Résumé

From controlling disease outbreaks to predicting heart attacks, dynamic models are increasingly crucial for understanding biological processes. Many universities are starting undergraduate programs in computational biology to introduce students to this rapidly growing field. In Dynamic Models in Biology, the first text on dynamic models specifically written for undergraduate students in the biological sciences, ecologist Stephen Ellner and mathematician John Guckenheimer teach students how to understand, build, and use dynamic models in biology.

Developed from a course taught by Ellner and Guckenheimer at Cornell University, the book is organized around biological applications, with mathematics and computing developed through case studies at the molecular, cellular, and population levels. The authors cover both simple analytic models--the sort usually found in mathematical biology texts--and the complex computational models now used by both biologists and mathematicians.

Linked to a Web site with computer-lab materials and exercises, Dynamic Models in Biology is a major new introduction to dynamic models for students in the biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering.

L'auteur - Stephen P. Ellner

Stephen P. Ellner is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. He has published numerous papers on subjects from measles epidemics to bumblebee behavior, in publications including Science and Nature.

L'auteur - John Guckenheimer

John Guckenheimer is Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University. He is the coauthor of Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields.

Sommaire

What Are Dynamic Models?
Matrix Models and Structured Population Dynamics
Membrane Channels and Action Potentials
Cellular Dynamics: Pathways of Gene Expression
Dynamical Systems
Differential Equation Models for Infectious Disease
Spatial Patterns in Biology
Agent-Based and Other Computational Models for Complex Systems
Building Dynamic Models

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Éditeur(s)	Princeton University Press
Auteur(s)	Stephen P. Ellner, John Guckenheimer
Parution	29/05/2006
Nb. de pages	352
Format	18 x 25,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	615g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780691125893
ISBN13	978-0-691-12589-3