An Introduction to Systems Biology (Chapman & Hall/CRC) 2nd Edition By Uri Alon, 9781439837177

Excellent, well-structured, and exquisitely written paper that approaches systems biology from an engineering perspective. Alon offers well-written appendices that concisely and clearly explain fundamental biological and mathematical ideas without detracting from the main text. Before going on to discuss some fundamental transcription-network motifs (patterns) that can be joined to create bigger networks, he begins with a mathematical explanation of transcriptional activation. Nature