part 1 Dynamics of reaction networks: Markov processes -- chapter 1 Reaction networks: introduction -- chapter 2 Continuous-time Markov chains -- part 2 Illustrations from systems biology -- chapter 3 First-order chemical reaction networks -- chapter 4 Biochemical pathways -- chapter 5 Binding processes and transcription rates -- chapter 6 Kinetics of binding processes -- chapter 7 Transcription factor binding at nucleosomal DNA -- chapter 8 Signalling switches -- part 3 Part III A short course on dynamical systems -- chapter 9 Differential equations, flows and vector fields -- chapter 10 Equilibria, periodic orbits and limit cycles -- part 4 Part IV Linear noise approximation -- chapter 12 Density dependent population processes and the linear noise approximation -- chapter 13 Mass action kinetics.