Physics of biological systems : from molecules to species /
This book contains pedagogical introductions to a selection of the most exciting subjects in current biological physics: - Sorting DNA on a microchip: a first step towards miniature laboratories on a chip. - Modeling protein folding, structure, and motion. - Physics of organelles: mechanical charact...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[1997]
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| Series: | Lecture notes in physics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : physics : and the physics of biological systems / Henrik Flyvbjerg and Ole G. Mouritsen
- Microchips for sorting DNA / Thomas Duke and Robert H. Austin
- The complexity of proteins / Hans Frauenfelder
- The energy landscape theory of protein folding / Peter G. Wolynes and Zan Luthey-Schulten
- From interatomic interactions to protein structure / Joseph D. Bryngelson and Eric M. Billings
- Probing protein motion through temperature echoes / Klaus Schulten, Hui Lu, and Linsen Bai
- Motor proteins / Jonathon Howard and Frederick Gittes
- Shapes and fluctuations in membranes / Luca Peliti
- Bending energy concept of vesicle and cell shapes and shape transitions / Erich Sackmann
- Microtubule dDynamics / Henrik Flyvbjerg
- A physicist's introduction to brains and neurons / William Softky and Gary Holt
- Statistical mechanics and sensory signal processing / William Bialek
- Molecular evolutionary biology / Peter Schuster [and others]
- Smart bacterial colonies / Eshel Ben-Jacob, Inon Cohen and Andras Czirók
- Complementarity of physics, biology, and geometry in the dynamics of swimming micro-organisms / John O. Kessler and Nick A. Hill
- Mass extinctions vs. uniformitarianism in biological evolution / Per Bak and Maya Paczuski.