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Record Nr.

UNISA996466803203316

Titolo

Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the XV Sitges Conference, Held at Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 June 1998 / / edited by D. Reguera, J.M.G. Vilar, J.M. Rubi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1999

ISBN

3-540-48486-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 1999.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 320 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 527

Disciplina

570/.1/53013

Soggetti

Biophysics

Biological physics

Statistical physics

Dynamical systems

Biomathematics

Condensed matter

Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics

Complex Systems

Mathematical and Computational Biology

Condensed Matter Physics

Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.