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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809084003321

Autore

Dewey Thomas Gregory <1952->

Titolo

Fractals in molecular biophysics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770404-2

1-280-52698-X

9786610526987

0-19-535918-6

1-4294-0424-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Collana

Topics in physical chemistry.

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

574.8/8/0151474

Soggetti

Molecular biology - Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

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

With this volume, T. Gregory Dewey presents a unified treatment of the application of fractals in molecular biophysics. The book brings together diverse applications under a format that moves from structural to dynamic problems.