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By
J. Ricard, Universite Paris, Institut Jacques MONOD, France
Giorgio Bernardi, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy
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Description
The concept of network as a mathematical description of a set of states, or events, linked according to a certain topology has been developed
recently and has led to a novel approach of real world. This approach is no doubt important in the field of biology. In fact biological
systems can be considered networks. Thus, for instance, an enzyme-catalysed reaction is a network that links, according to a certain
topology, the various states of the protein and of its complexes with the substrates and products of the chemical reaction. Connections
between neurons, social relations in animal and human populations are also examples of networks. Hence there is little doubt that the
concept of network transgresses the boundaries between traditional scientific disciplines.
This book is aimed at discussing in physical
terms these exciting new topics on simple protein model lattices, supramolecular protein edifices, multienzyme and gene networks.
Audience
graduate level biochemists, cell biologists, and physicists interested in biological systems
Contents
Preface
Molecular stereospecific recognition and reduction in cell biology; Mathematical prelude: elementary set and probability theory;
Biological networks; Information and communication in living systems; Statistical mechanics of network information, integration and emergence;
On the mechanistic causes of network information, integration and emergence; Information and organization of metabolic networks; Functional
connections in multienzyme complexes, information and generalized microscopic reversibility; Conformation changes and information flow
in protein edifices; Gene networks; Stochastic fluctuations and network dynamics
Index
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 296 pages, publication date: FEB-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52159-0
ISBN-10: 0-444-52159-3
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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