Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity

Proceedings of the XV Sitges Conference, Held at Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 June 1998

D. Reguera, J.M.G. Vilar, J.M. Rubi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 320 Seiten

2010 | 1. Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1999
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-08553-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Lecture Notes in Physics
Zusatzinfo	XII, 320 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	509 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
Schlagworte	algorithms • biocomplexity • Biology • Blood vessel • Information Processing • Mechanics • thermodynamics
ISBN-10	3-642-08553-9 / 3642085539
ISBN-13	978-3-642-08553-6 / 9783642085536
Zustand	Neuware