Book review: Complexity in Biological Information Processing

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"Editors: Gregory Bock and Jamie Goode"--Page v. Functional modules in biological signalling networks / Upinder S. Bhalla and Ravi Iyengar -- Design of immune-based interventions in autoimmunity and viral infections : the need for predictive models that integrate time, dose and classes of immune responses / Matthias G. von Herrath -- Controlling the immune system : diffuse feedback via a diffuse informational network / Lee A. Segel -- The versatility and complexity of calcium signalling / Michael J. Berridge -- Multiple pathways of ERK activation by G protein-coupled receptors / Thomas Gudermann -- Heterogeneity of second messenger levels in living cells / Manuela Zaccolo, Luisa Filippin, Paulo Magalhães and Tullio Pozzan -- Humoral coding and decoding / Klaus Prank, Martin Kropp and Georg Brabant -- From genes to whole organs : connecting biochemistry to physiology / Denis Noble -- Development of high-throughput tools to unravel the complexity of gene expression patterns in the mammalian brain / U. Herzig, C. Cadenas, F. Sieckmann, W. Sierralta, C. Thaller, A. Visel and G. Eichele -- Regulation of gene expression by action potentials : dependence on complexity in cellular information processing / R. Douglas Fields, Feleke Eshete, Serena Dudek, Nesrin Ozsarac and Beth Stevens -- Efficiency and complexity in neural coding / Simon B. Laughlin -- Neural dynamics in cortical networks : precision of joint-spiking events / Ad Aertsen, Markus Diesmann, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Sonja Grün and Stefan Rotter -- Predictive learning of temporal sequences in recurrent neocortical circuits / Rajesh P.N. Rao and Terrence J. Sejnowski.