Biosystems Engineering: Applying methods from systems theory to biological systems

Using methods and tools from systems theory will offer new possibilities to analyze and design biological systems. The intention of this contribution is two fold: giving an overview on different areas where such methods can be applied. The main focus in the first part will be the set up of mathematical models. Here two complementing ways to come to a suitable model will be discussed. The second part will describe possibilities to validate mathematical models and to design experiments while the third part will discuss methods to analyze complex systems. Besides the overview the second intension is to present also some new ideas for the application of methods from systems theory