I got into synthetic bio for a little while and ended up reading this intro textbook: https://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Systems-Biology-Principle...

If you've taken "Systems Engineering" or "Control Systems" type classes where you learn about oscillators and other high-level control systems work across a variety of engineering disciplines, this is a great into to how these systems are "implemented" and work inside of cells. It's not "IF" and "WHILE" loops, but more like "How are logical circuits such as e.coli path finding algorithms implemented in RNA"

I personally really liked: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Systems-Biology-Mathemat...

These were the undergrad books I had on biology:

https://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Bruce-Alberts/...

https://www.amazon.com/Biochemistry-Jeremy-M-Berg/dp/1464126...