Systems Microbiology—Current Topics and Applications

The field is vigorous as biologists take advantage of new technologies that produce better data and allow study of dynamic interactions of more than one component in a biological system. Eight contributions from an international roster of researchers address the following: how to construct mathematical models for systems biology; a review of Eschericia coli metabolism; bacterial chemotaxis; infection; human host cells and intracellular pathogens; principles of phagocytosis; the metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Sulfolobus systems biology. The two editors are affiliated as follows: Brian D. Robertson (Imperial College London, UK) and Brendan W. Wren (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK). The volume is distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)