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Control Engineering and Systems Biology

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences ((LNCIS,volume 367))

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Engineers use feedback, both positive and negative, to perform a wide array of signaling functions. Biological systems are also faced with many of the same requirements In this tutorial we examine examples from different cellular signaling systems to show how biology also uses feedback paths to perform many of the same tasks.

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Andrews, B.W., Iglesias, P.A. (2007). Control Engineering and Systems Biology. In: Turner, M.C., Bates, D.G. (eds) Mathematical Methods for Robust and Nonlinear Control. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 367. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-025-4_10

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