| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Biological networks | p. 1 |
| Why build and study models? | p. 5 |
| Characterizing dynamic states | p. 6 |
| Formulating dynamic network models | p. 7 |
| The basic information is in a matrix format | p. 11 |
| Studying dynamic models | p. 13 |
| Summary | p. 16 |
| Basic concepts | p. 17 |
| Properties of dynamic states | p. 17 |
| Primer on rate laws | p. 20 |
| More on aggregate variables | p. 25 |
| Time-scale decomposition | p. 28 |
| Network structure versus dynamics | p. 31 |
| Physico-chemical effects | p. 34 |
| Summary | p. 36 |
| Simulation of Dynamic States | |
| Dynamic simulation: the basic procedure | p. 41 |
| Numerical solutions | p. 41 |
| Graphically displaying the solution | p. 43 |
| Post-processing the solution | p. 49 |
| Demonstration of the simulation procedure | p. 51 |
| Summary | p. 56 |
| Chemical reactions | p. 58 |
| Basic properties of reactions | p. 58 |
| The reversible linear reaction | p. 60 |
| The reversible bilinear reaction | p. 62 |
| Connected reversible linear reactions | p. 66 |
| Connected reversible bilinear reactions | p. 70 |
| Summary | p. 75 |
| Enzyme kinetics | p. 76 |
| Enzyme catalysis | p. 76 |
| Deriving enzymatic rate laws | p. 78 |
| Michaelis-Menten kinetics | p. 80 |
| Hill kinetics for enzyme regulation | p. 85 |
| The symmetry model | p. 90 |
| Scaling dynamic descriptions | p. 94 |
| Summary | p. 96 |
| Open systems | p. 97 |
| Basic concepts | p. 97 |
| Reversible reaction in an open environment | p. 100 |
| Michaelis-Menten kinetics in an open environment | p. 104 |
| Summary | p. 107 |
| Biological Characteristics | |
| Orders of magnitude | p. 111 |
| Cellular composition and ultra-structure | p. 111 |
| Metabolism | p. 116 |
| Macromolecules | p. 124 |
| Cell growth and phenotypic functions | p. 128 |
| Summary | p. 131 |
| Stoichiometric structure | p. 132 |
| Bilinear biochemical reactions | p. 132 |
| Bilinearity leads to a tangle of cycles | p. 134 |
| Trafficking of high-energy phosphate bonds | p. 137 |
| Charging and recovering high-energy bonds | p. 145 |
| Summary | p. 149 |
| Regulation as elementary phenomena | p. 150 |
| Regulation of enzymes | p. 150 |
| Regulatory signals: phenomenology | p. 152 |
| The effects of regulation on dynamic states | p. 153 |
| Local regulation with Hill kinetics | p. 156 |
| Feedback inhibition of pathways | p. 161 |
| Increasing network complexity | p. 165 |
| Summary | p. 169 |
| Metabolism | |
| Glycolysis | p. 173 |
| Glycolysis as a system | p. 173 |
| The stoichiometric matrix | p. 175 |
| Defining the steady state | p. 181 |
| Simulating mass balances: biochemistry | p. 185 |
| Pooling: towards systems biology | p. 189 |
| Ratios: towards physiology | p. 199 |
| Assumptions | p. 202 |
| Summary | p. 203 |
| Coupling pathways | p. 204 |
| The pentose pathway | p. 204 |
| The combined stoichiometric matrix | p. 210 |
| Defining the steady state | p. 214 |
| Simulating the dynamic mass balances | p. 216 |
| Pooling: towards systems biology | p. 218 |
| Ratios: towards physiology | p. 219 |
| Summary | p. 222 |
| Building networks | p. 224 |
| AMP metabolism | p. 224 |
| Network integration | p. 231 |
| Whole-cell models | p. 240 |
| Summary | p. 241 |
| Macromolecules | |
| Hemoglobin | p. 245 |
| Hemoglobin: the carrier of oxygen | p. 245 |
| Describing the states of hemoglobin | p. 248 |
| Integration with glycolysis | p. 253 |
| Summary | p. 257 |
| Regulated enzymes | p. 259 |
| Phosphofructokinase | p. 259 |
| The steady state | p. 265 |
| Integration of PFK with glycolysis | p. 269 |
| Summary | p. 274 |
| Epilogue | p. 275 |
| Building dynamic models in the omics era | p. 275 |
| Going forward | p. 280 |
| Nomenclature | p. 285 |
| Homework problems | p. 288 |
| References | p. 306 |
| Index | p. 314 |
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