News

New Books:

Shiraishi, F.: BST: Biochemical Systems Theory. Sangyo-tosho, Tokyo, 2007. In Japanese.




Goel, G.: Reconstructing Biochemical Systems. Systems Modeling and Analysis Tools for Decoding Biological Designs. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2008.






BST Conference in the Philippines

Click ICMSB 2008 in Manila for information.




Since January 1, 2008, Voit leads Georgia Tech's new Integrative BioSystems Institute as its first director.

Click here for further information.




Voit Lab part of a $125 Million Department of Energy sponsored project for improvements in biofuel production.

More information coming soon.



Dr. Ricardo del Rosario and Ms. Anna Machina will join the lab this Summer.



Recent papers:

Veflingstad, S.R., and E.O. Voit: Systems Biology as an Inspiration for Mechatronics. J. Biomechatronics Engng. (accepted).

Weitz, J.S., Y. Mileyko, R.I. Joh, and E.O. Voit: Collective decision making in bacterial viruses. Biophys. J. (in press), 2008.

Yin, W. and E. O. Voit: Construction and Customization of Stable Oscillation Models in Biology. J. Biol. Systems (in press), 2008.

Qi, Z., G. W. Miller, and E. O. Voit: A Mathematical Model of Presynaptic Dopamine Homeostasis: Implications for Schizophrenia. Pharmacopsychiatry 41(Suppl. 1): S##-S##, 2008.

Voit. E.O., Z. Qi, and G.W. Miller: Modeling Complex Biological Systems, One Step at a Time. Pharmacopsychiatry 41(Suppl. 1): S1-S7, 2008.

Qi, Z., G. W. Miller, and E. O. Voit: Computational systems analysis of dopamine metabolism. PLoS One 3(6):e2444, 2008.

Garcia, J., J. Shea, F. Alvarez-Vasquez, A. Qureshi, C. Luberto, E. O. Voit, and M. Del Poeta: Mathematical modeling of pathogenicity of Cryptococcus neoformans. Molecular Systems Biology. 4:183, 2008.

Vilela, M., I-C.Chou, S. Vinga, A.T.R Vasconcelos, E.O. Voit, and J.S. Almeida: Parameter optimization in S-system models. BMC Systems Biol. 16; 2:35, 2008.

Voit, E. O. and K. L. Brigham: The role of systems biology in predictive health and personalized medicine. The Open Path. J. 2, 68-70, 2008.

Feinendegen, L., P. Hahnfeldt, E.E. Schadt, M. Stumpf, and E.O. Voit: Systems Biology and its Potential Role in Radiobiology. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics 47(1), 5-23, 2008.

del Rosario, R.C.H., E. Mendoza, and E.O. Voit: Challenges in lin-log modeling of glycolysis in Lactococcus lactis. IET Systems Biol. in press.

Alvarez-Vasquez, F., Y. A. Hannun, and E. O. Voit. Dynamics of positional enrichment: Theoretical development and application to carbon labeling in Zymomonas mobilis. Biochem. Eng. J. ##, ### 2008, in press.

Garcia, S.P, E. L. Krug, J. M. Arthur, E. O. Voit, R. Stanislaus, and J. S. Almeida. Follow the leader: deciphering biological systems from dynamical networks. BMC Bioinformatics 7; 9:4, 2008.

Polisetty, P.K., E.O. Voit, and E. P. Gatzke: Yield Optimization of Regulated Metabolic Systems Using Deterministic Methods. Biotech. Bioengin. 99(5), 1154-1169, 2008.

Marin-Sanguino, A., E.O. Voit, C. Gonzalez-Alcon, and N.V. Torres: Optimization of biotechnological systems through geometric programming. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 4:38, 2007.

Vilela, M., C. Borges, A. T. Vasconcelos, H. Santos, E. O. Voit. and J. S. Almeida: Automated smoother for numerical decoupling of dynamic models. BMC Bioinformatics 8:305, 2007.

Sims, K.J., F. Alvarez-Vasquez, E.O. Voit and Y.A. Hannun: A guide to biochemical systems modeling of sphingolipids for the biochemist. Methods in Enzymology, 432, 319-350, 2007.

Alvarez-Vasquez, F., K. J. Sims, E.O. Voit, and Y.A. Hannun: Coordination of the dynamics of yeast sphingolipid metabolism during the diauxic shift. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, 2007.

Chou, I-C., H. Martens, and E.O. Voit: Parameter Estimation of S-distributions with Alternating Regression. Stat. Operations Res. Transactions (SORT), 31(1), 55-74. 2007.

Schwacke, J.H., and E.O. Voit: Concentration-dependent effects on the rapid and efficient activation of MAPK. Proteomics 7(6), 890-899, 2007.

Wang, F.-S, C.-L. Ko and E. O. Voit: Kinetic Modeling Using S-systems and Lin-log Approaches. Biochem. Eng. J. 33, 238-247 2007.

Schwacke, J.H., and E.O. Voit: The potential for signal integration and processing in interacting MAP kinase cascades. J. Theor. Biol. 246(4), 604-620, 2007.

Voit, E.O. and J.H. Schwacke: Understanding through Modeling. In: A.K. Konopka (Ed.) Systems Biology: Principles, Methods, and Concepts. CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Books, Boca Raton, pp. 27-82, 2007.

Voit, E.O.: Canonical Modeling. In: Encyclopedia for Quantitative Risk Assessment. Wiley and Sons (expected 2008).

Mao, F., H. Wu, P. Dam, I-C. Chou, E. O. Voit, and Y. Xu: Prediction of Biological Pathways through Data Mining and Information Fusion. In: Y. Xu and J.P. Gogarten (Eds.) Computational Methods for Understanding Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore. in press.

Veflingstad, S., P. Dam, Y. Xu, and E. O. Voit: Microbial Pathway Models. In: Y. Xu and J.P. Gogarten (Eds.) Computational Methods for Understanding Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore. in press.

Voit, E.O.: Modeling Networks using Power-Laws and S-Systems. In: O. Wolkenhauer (Ed.) Systems Biology, Essays in Biochemistry Series, Portland Press (invited).