by Mert İnan (Contributor), Noah Lee (Contributor), Shuanger Li (Contributor), Chris Lee (Contributor)
Biological Modeling: A Short Tour offers readers a deep but concise exploration of topics in modeling biological systems at multiple scales. Each chapter poses a single biological question, from why zebras have stripes, to how bacteria explore their world intelligently, to why the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was so effective at binding to human cells. The book then introduces the modeling concepts needed to answer this question. The book website provides a free online course containing dozens of interactive tutorials allowing readers to build and explore the models introduced in this book. The course was produced with the help of talented students at Carnegie Mellon University who appear in the book as chapter co-authors.
