Luonan Chen received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. From 1997, he was a member of the faculty of Osaka Sangyo University, Osaka, Japan, and then became a full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics. He was also the founding director of Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University. Since 2010, he has been a professor at Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His fields of interest are systems biology, bioinformatics, and nonlinear dynamics. He serves as associate editor or editorial board member for many systems biology related journals, e.g. BMC Systems Biology, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IET Systems Biology, Mathematical Biosciences, International Journal of Systems and Synthetic Biology, and the Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. He also serves as Chair of Technical Committee of Systems Biology at the IEEE SMC Society.

Ruiqi Wang received an M.S. degree in mathematics from Yunnan University, Kunming, China, in 1999, and a Ph. D. degree in mathematics from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, Beijing, China, in 2002.
Since 2007, he has been a member of the faculty of Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, where he is currently an Associate Professor at Institute of Systems Biology. His fields of interest are systems biology and nonlinear dynamics.

Chunguang Li received an M.S. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems and a Ph.D. degree in Circuits and Systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor
with the Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. His current research interests include computational neuroscience, statistical signal processing, and machine intelligence.

Kazuyuki Aihara received a B.E. degree of electrical engineering in 1977 and a Ph.D. degree of electronic engineering 1982 from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Currently, he is Professor of the Institute of Industrial Science, Professor of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, and Director of Collaborative Research Center for Innovative Mathematical Modelling at the University of Tokyo. His research interests include mathematical modeling of complex systems, parallel distributed processing with spatio-temporal chaos, and time series analysis of complex data.

Shows the reader how nature has often evolved different more efficient solutions from those produced by traditional human approaches to circuits and systems

Gives the reader mathematical tools to produce simplified models of molecular networks and interactions

Demonstrates how simple biological systems can be synthesised with controllable properties facilitating their use in novel forms of electronics

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Dynamical Representations of Molecular Networks.- Deterministic Structures of Biomolecular Networks.- Qualitative Analysis of Deterministic Dynamical Networks.- Stability Analysis of Genetic Networks in Lur'e Form.- Design of Synthetic Switching Networks.- Design of Synthetic Oscillating Networks.- Multicellular Networks and Synchronization.