Mathematical Modelling of Biosystems

ISBN-13: 9783642095467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 305 str.

Rubem P. Mondaini;Panos M. Pardalos

Opis

This volume is an interdisciplinary book which introduces, in a very readable way, state-of-the-art research in the fundamental topics of mathematical modelling of Biosystems. In short, the book offers an overview of mathematical and computational modelling of biosystems including biological phenomena in general. There is also a special introduction to Protein Physics which aims to explain the all-or-none first order phase transitions from native to denatured states.

Spis treści

Elastic Growth Models.- A Model of Pattern Coupled to Form in Metazoans.- Mathematical Modeling of HIV-1 Infection and Drug Therapy.- Overcoming the Key Challenges in De Novo Protein Design: Enhancing Computational Efficiency and Incorporating True Backbone Flexibility.- The Improved Heuristic for Consistent Biclustering Problems.- The Steiner Tree Problem and Its Application to the Modelling of Biomolecular Structures.- Phenotypic Switching and Mutation in the Presence of a Biocide: No Replication of Phenotypic Variant.- From Spatial Pattern in the Distribution and Abundance of Species to a Unified Theory of Ecology: The Role of Maximum Entropy Methods.- Protein Structure and Its Folding Rate.