Before revision: Switching and bistability has been recognized as an important feature of dynamical systems originating in Systems Biology. In the majority of cases bistability of the dynamical system is established numerically.
After revision: Many biochemical processes can successfully be described by dynamical systems allowing some form of switching when, depending on their initial conditions, solutions of the dynamical system end up in different regions of state space (associated with different biochemical functions). Switching is often realized by a bistable system (i.e. a dynamical system allowing two stable steady state solutions) and, in the majority of cases bistability of the dynamical system is established numerically.