Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Christoph Wittmann and Sang Yup Lee -- 1. Genome-scale network modeling / Sang Yup Lee, Seung Bum Sohn, Hyun Uk Kim, Jong Myoung Park, Tae Yong Kim, Jeffrey D. Orth, and Bernhard Ø. Palsson -- 2. Kinetic modeling of metabolic networks / Daniel C. Zielinski and Bernhard Ø. Palsson -- 3. Design of superior cell factories based on systems wide omics analysis / Katsunori Yoshikawa, Chikara Furusawa, Takashi Hirasawa, and Hiroshi Shimizu -- 4. Technologies for bio-systems engineering / Sonja Billerbeck, Sven Dietz, Gaspar Morgado, and Sven Panke -- 5. Systems metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for chemicals, materials, biofuels, and pharmaceuticals / Dokyun Na, Jin Hwan Park, Yu-Sin Jang, Jeong Wook Lee, and Sang Yup Lee -- 6. Systems metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for biobased production of chemicals, materials and fuels / Judith Becker, Stefanie Kind, and Christoph Wittmann -- 7. Towards a synthetic biology of the stress-response and the tolerance phenotype: systems understanding and engineering of the Clostridium acetobutylicum stress-response and tolerance to toxic metabolites / Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis and Keith V. Alsaker -- 8. Model-based design of superior cell factory: an illustrative example of Penicillium chrysogenum / I. Emrah Nikerel, Peter J.T. Verheijen, Walter M. van Gulik, and Joseph J. Heijnen -- 9. Bridging omics technologies with synthetic biology in yeast industrial biotechnology / António Roldão, Il-Kwon Kim, and Jens Nielsen -- 10. Design of superior cell factories for a sustainable biorefinery by synthetic bioengineering / Tomohisa Hasunuma, Fumio Matsuda, and Akihiko Kondo -- 11. Systems-level analysis of cancer metabolism / Paulo A. Gameiro, Christian M. Metallo, and Gregory Stephanopoulos.