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Stochastic Processes, Multiscale Modeling, and Numerical Methods for Computational Cellular Biology

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  • Provides a collection of organized reviews on fundamental topics, not necessarily covered by classical text books, due to the interdisciplinary nature of the subject
  • Features new mathematical-physics research in biology, biophysics, and covers stochastic processes in cellular biology
  • Investigates current problems and trends within mathematical biology and how these are described using dynamical systems approaches
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Stochastic Chemical Reactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Multiscale Simulation of Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Networks

      • Stefan Engblom, Andreas Hellander, Per Lötstedt
      Pages 55-79
  3. Stochastic Numerical Approaches, Algorithms and Coarse-Grained Simulations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
    2. The T Cells in an Ageing Virtual Mouse

      • Mario Castro, Grant Lythe, Carmen Molina-París
      Pages 127-140
  4. Analysis of Stochastic Dynamical Systems for Modeling Cell Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
    2. Model Reduction for Stochastic Reaction Systems

      • Stephen Smith, Ramon Grima
      Pages 143-158
    3. ZI-Closure Scheme: A Method to Solve and Study Stochastic Reaction Networks

      • M. Vlysidis, P. H. Constantino, Y. N. Kaznessis
      Pages 159-174
    4. A Review of Stochastic and Delay Simulation Approaches in Both Time and Space in Computational Cell Biology

      • Kevin Burrage, Pamela Burrage, Andre Leier, Tatiana Marquez-Lago
      Pages 241-261
  5. Diffusion Processes and Stochastic Modeling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
    2. Recent Mathematical Models of Axonal Transport

      • Chuan Xue, Gregory Jameson
      Pages 265-285
    3. Modeling and Stochastic Analysis of the Single Photon Response

      • Jürgen Reingruber, David Holcman
      Pages 315-348

About this book

This book focuses on the modeling and mathematical analysis of stochastic dynamical systems along with their simulations. The collected chapters will review fundamental and current topics and approaches to dynamical systems in cellular biology.

This text aims to develop improved mathematical and computational methods with which to study biological processes. At the scale of a single cell, stochasticity becomes important due to low copy numbers of biological molecules, such as mRNA and proteins that take part in biochemical reactions driving cellular processes. When trying to describe such biological processes, the traditional deterministic models are often inadequate, precisely because of these low copy numbers. This book presents stochastic models, which are necessary to account for small particle numbers and extrinsic noise sources. The complexity of these models depend upon whether the biochemical reactions are diffusion-limited or reaction-limited. In the former case, oneneeds to adopt the framework of stochastic reaction-diffusion models, while in the latter, one can describe the processes by adopting the framework of Markov jump processes and stochastic differential equations.

Stochastic Processes, Multiscale Modeling, and Numerical Methods for Computational Cellular Biology will appeal to graduate students and researchers in the fields of applied mathematics, biophysics, and cellular biology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Biology École Normale Supérieure, Applied Mathematics and Computational Biology, Paris, France

    David Holcman

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