The Course Companion
Biological Modeling:
A Short Tour
by Phillip Compeau
with Noah Yann Lee, Chris Lee, Shuanger Li, and Mert Inan
Five chapters. Five biological mysteries. One clean narrative: no installation guides, no sidebars, just the science and the math that illuminates it.
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What's inside
We model Turing patterns emerging from reaction-diffusion systems and see how complexity arises from simple molecular rules.
We explore transcription factor networks and the recurring structural motifs that evolution has discovered independently, again and again.
We decode E. coli's chemotaxis algorithm: a robust, adaptive exploration strategy built from a handful of proteins.
We compare coronavirus spike proteins using structural biology and molecular dynamics to understand viral infectivity at the atomic level.
We build a classifier for white blood cell images using PCA and machine learning, constructing a real diagnostic pipeline from scratch.
Publication of Biological Modeling: A Short Tour was funded by several hundred backers through Kickstarter and Indiegogo. We are grateful to every supporter who helped bring the book to life.
