03181nam 2200685 450 991014662450332120210223230330.01-280-62721-297866106272193-540-32667-710.1007/978-3-540-32667-0(CKB)1000000000282339(EBL)304580(OCoLC)262687367(SSID)ssj0000191997(PQKBManifestationID)11156557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191997(PQKBWorkID)10187290(PQKB)11202201(DE-He213)978-3-540-32667-0(MiAaPQ)EBC304580(MiAaPQ)EBC6357824(PPN)123720079(EXLCZ)99100000000028233920210223d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLife an introduction to complex systems biology /K. Kaneko1st ed. 2006.Berlin, Germany ;New York, United States :Springer,[2006]©20061 online resource (383 p.)Understanding complex systemsBased in part on a Japanese work published in 2003 by the University of Tokyo Press--cf. Preface.3-540-32666-9 Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-364) and index.How Should Living Systems Be Studied? -- Constructive Biology -- Basic Concepts in Dynamical Systems and Statistical Physics for Biological System -- Origin of Bioinformation -- Origin of a Cell with Recursive Growth -- Universal Statistics of a Cell with Recursive Growth -- Cell Differentiation and Development -- Irreversible Differentiation from Stem Cell and Robust Development -- Pattern Formation and Origin of Positional Information -- Genetic Evolution with Phenotypic Fluctuations -- Speciation as a Fixation of Phenotypic Differentiation -- Conclusion.What is life? Has molecular biology given us a satisfactory answer to this question? And if not, why, and how to carry on from there? This book examines life not from the reductionist point of view, but rather asks the question: what are the universal properties of living systems and how can one construct from there a phenomenological theory of life that leads naturally to complex processes such as reproductive cellular systems, evolution and differentiation? The presentation has been deliberately kept fairly non-technical so as to address a broad spectrum of students and researchers from the natural sciences and informatics.Understanding complex systems.CytologyLifeMolecular biologySystems biologyBiological systemsElectronic books.Cytology.Life.Molecular biology.Systems biology.Biological systems.570Kaneko Kunihiko22992MiAaPQBOOK9910146624503321Life1099012UNINA