Includes bibliographical references and index.

A primer on control engineering -- Modeling and analysis of stochastic biochemical networks -- Spatial modeling -- Quantifying properties of cell signaling cascades -- Control strategies in times of adversity -- Synthetic biology : a systems engineering perspective -- Graphs and the dynamics of biochemical networks -- A control-theoretic interpretation of metabolic control analysis -- Robustness and sensitivity analyses in cellular networks -- Structural robustness of biochemical networks : quantifying robustness and identifying fragilities -- Robustness of oscillations in biological systems -- A theory of approximation for stochastic biochemical processes -- System theoretic approaches to network reconstruction -- Identification of biochemical reaction networks using a parameter-free coordinate system.