@inbook{992f0795ade746db995bd26712838613,
title = "Monotone and near-monotone systems",
abstract = "This paper provides an expository introduction to monotone and near-monotone biochemical network structures. Monotone systems respond in a predictable fashion to perturbations, and have very robust dynamical characteristics. This makes them reliable components of more complex networks, and suggests that natural biological systems may have evolved to be, if not monotone, at least close to monotone. In addition, interconnections of monotone systems may be fruitfully analyzed using tools from control theory.",
author = "Sontag, {Eduardo D.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by NSf Grants DMS-0504557 and DMS-0614371.",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-71988-5_5",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3540719873",
series = "Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences",
pages = "79--122",
editor = "Isabelle Queinnec and Sophie Tarbouriech and Germain Garcia and Silviu-Iulian Niculescu",
booktitle = "Biology and Control Theory",
}