Doraiswami Ramkrishna is the Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, Indiana. He pioneered the development of dynamic metabolic modeling, and has been active in the area for over thirty years. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, coined the term 'cybernetic modeling', and has authored several academic books. Hyun-Seob Song is a Senior Research Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington (PNNL). His new development of metabolic pathway analysis enabled dynamic metabolic modeling for complex, large-scale networks. He is also active in the areas of network inference and microbial community modeling.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Enzymatic adaptation; 3. Early development of cybernetic models; 4. Revisiting cybernetic laws via optimal control theory; 5. Towards modeling of metabolic networks; 6. The hybrid cybernetic model (HCM); 7. The lumped hybrid cybernetic model (L-HCM); 8. Predicting dynamic behavior of mutant strains with L-HCM; 9. Nonlinear analysis of cybernetic models; 10. Metabolic modeling landscape; References; Index.