Overview

This book demonstrates the usefulness of tools from statistical mechanics for biology. It includes the new tendencies in topics like membranes, vesicles, microtubules, molecular motors, DNA, protein folding, phase transitions in biological systems, evolution, population dynamics, neural systems and biological oscillators, with special emphasis on the importance of statistical mechanics in their development. The book addresses researchers and graduate students.

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Author:   D. Reguera ,  J.M.G. Vilar ,  J.M. Rubi
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   527
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.516kg
ISBN:  

9783642085536

ISBN 10:   3642085539
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

From membranes to membrane machines.- ‘Sausage string’ patterns in blood vessels at high blood pressures.- Phase transitions in mesoscopic spherical membranes.- Modeling microtubule oscillations[1].- Designing RNA folding cooperativity.- Scaling laws for protein folding.- Self-organizing networks of molecular machines in allosterically regulated enzymic reactions.- Coupled Brownian motors.- On the role of molecular machines in the origin of the genetic code.- Population dynamics and non-Hermitian localization.- Collective motion.- A population dynamics approach to biological aging.- Small-world networks.- Extended mean-field theory for networks of spiking neurons.- Pattern formation in the developing visual cortex: Topological defects, their generation, motion, and annihilation.- Complex spiking behavior from noise-driven neuron interaction.- A new nonlinear model for pitch perception.- Statistical mechanics of network models of macroevolution and extinction.- Exact analytical results in a simple model of self-organized biological evolution.- Transition to chaos in models of genetic networks.

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