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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784779303321

Autore

Dewey Thomas Gregory <1952->

Titolo

Fractals in molecular biophysics / / T. Gregory Dewey, Department of Chemistry, University of Denver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [1997]

©1997

ISBN

0-19-770404-2

1-280-52698-X

9786610526987

0-19-535918-6

1-4294-0424-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Topics in physical chemistry : a series of advanced textbooks and monographs

Disciplina

574.8/8/0151474

Soggetti

Molecular biology - Mathematical models

Biophysics - Mathematical models

Fractals

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 What Are Fractals?; 2 Fractal Aspects of Protein Structure; 3 Loops, Polymer Statistics, and Helix-Coil Transitions; 4 The Multifractality of Biomacromolecules; 5 Fractal Diffusion and Chemical Kinetics; 6 Are Protein Dynamics Fractal?; 7 Fractons and Vibrational Relaxation in Proteins; 8 Encoded Walks and Correlations in Sequence Data; 9 Percolation; 10 Chaos in Biochemical Systems; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses applications of fractal geometry to complex problems in molecular biophysics. It provides a treatment of fractal aspects of protein and structure dynamics, fractal reaction kinetics in biochemical systems, sequence correlations in DNA, and descriptors of chaos in enzymes.