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Record Nr.

UNINA9910142451003321

Titolo

Complexity in biological information processing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : John Wiley, 2001

ISBN

0-470-84667-4

9786610555529

1-280-55552-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages)

Collana

Novartis Foundation Symposia ; ; v.Vol. 239

Disciplina

571.7

Soggetti

Biochemical Processes

Cell Physiological Processes

Biology

Biochemical Phenomena

Biological Science Disciplines

Cell Physiological Phenomena

Chemical Processes

Chemical Phenomena

Phenomena and Processes

Natural Science Disciplines

Disciplines and Occupations

Computational Biology

Signal Transduction

Health & Biological Sciences

Biophysics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

Many human diseases arise from the malfunction of signalling components, in particular alterations of multiple components of an integrated signalling network. Experimental and computational tools to



describe and quantify these changes are increasingly available, providing a wealth of data that can stimulate systematic analysis of the entire signalling network and enable prediction of disease states not easily recognizable from complex data sets.  This groundbreaking book explores the structural and temporal complexity in biological signalling exemplified in neuronal, immunological, humoral and genetic signal transduction networks. With discussions between experimentalists and theoretically oriented scientists, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that may help switch the analysis of biological signalling from descriptive to predictive science and capture the behaviour of entire systems. * Explores the structural and temporal complexity in biological signalling. * Represents an unusual collocation of three different areas: immunology, cell signalling and neural networks. * Contains interdisciplinary discussions between experimentalists and theoretically oriented scientists, in particular those working on computer simulations.