KENNETH P. BIRMAN1†, ROY FRIEDMAN∗2‡, MARK HAYDEN1† AND INJONG RHEE3§ 1Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA (email: {ken,mark}@cs.cornell.edu) 2Department of Computer Science, The Technion–I.I.T., Haifa 32000, Israel (email: [email protected]) 3Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7534, USA (email: [email protected]...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT It gives me immense pleasure to express my deep sense of gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Tarapada Roy and Prof. Haraprasad Roy for their invaluable guidance, motivation, constant inspiration and above all their ever cooperating attitude enabled me in bringing up this thesis in present elegant form.

In 2002 Eric Davidson [3] and his research team published ?A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development? in Science. The authors present the first experimental verification and systemic description of a gene regulatory network. This publication represents the culmination of greater than thirty years of work on gene regulation [4] that began in 1969 with ?A Gene Regulatory Network for Developmen...