Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology

Based on ongoing research and the national initiative toward the "new biology" and increasing efforts to apply quantitative (mathematical) approaches to biological questions, this work offers a framework to systematically analyze, predict, and modulate the behavior of complex biological systems. The book offers a collection of topics designed around the principle of project-based learning, focusing on problem solving that emphasizes important mathematical concepts and methods in the context of essential questions raised in biology. The use of free open software to facilitate some of the computationally heavy techniques within the work for which hand computations are not feasible is included.