This book introduces students to
methods that will help them understand behaviour in terms of cellular
components and their interactions in non-intuitive ways, which calls for an
interdisciplinary approach combining mathematical, chemical, computational and
biological strategies. Tibor Ganti was one of the early pioneers who
proposed a theoretical framework to understand living principles in terms of
chemical transformation cycles and their coupling. The twenty-first century
then brought with it a novel ‘systems’ paradigm, which shone new light on all
previous work and was accompanied by numerous implications for the way we
conceive of chemical and biological complexity today. 



This book seeks to equip students to
take advantage of any field that investigates living systems. Based on a
conceptualisation of science-oriented branches, engineering-oriented branches
and biology as astoundingly complex fields, those structures laden with
biochemical detail encompass a deeper theory unifying our knowledge of designed
systems. 



Readers will be pleasantly surprised at
how lucidly the topics are presented. The book offers an indispensable resource
for students and professionals working in systems and synthetic biology or any
of the various related fields of research.