Systems Biology (MIT 8.591J)
by Jeff Gore · MIT OpenCourseWare
Cellular and population-level systems biology: genetic switches and oscillators, network motifs, cellular decision-making, pattern formation, cell-cell communication and evolutionary dynamics, with an emphasis on synthetic biology. Includes 24 lecture videos, problem sets and exams for learning to model genetic networks quantitatively.
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