Computational biology : a statistical mechanics perspective /: a statistical mechanics perspective. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ralf Blossey.
• Other Names: Blossey, Ralf
• Contents: STATISTICAL MECHANICS; Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics; Z: The Partition Function; Relation to Thermodynamics; Computing Z; Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics; Stochastic Processes; The Master Equation; Fluctuation Theorems; The Fokker-Planck and Langevin Equations; Sequence Alignment: A Nonequilibrium Phase Transition; BIOMOLECULES; Molecules, Code and Representation; DNA and RNA: The Building Blocks; Representing RNA Structure; Proteins; DNA; Thermal Stability of DNA: The Melting Transition; The Melting Profiles of Genomic DNA and cDNA; Hybridizing DNA; RNA; Computing RNA Secondary Structure: Combinatorics; The RNA Partition Function; RNA Phase Behavior and Folding Kinetics; Proteins; Proteins: Folding; Proteins: Docking; Electrostatics; Chromatin; Bacterial Chemotaxis: Cooperativity Once More; NETWORKS; Network Dynamics I: Deterministic; Deterministic Dynamics: ?-Repressor Expression; The Turing Insight; The Min System; Network Dynamics II: Fluctuations; Noise in Signaling; Stochastic Cascades; Stochastic Focusing; Fluctuating Gene Network Dynamics; Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Noise; Networks: Structure; Networks as Graphs; Probability Generating Functions and Network Characteristics; Statistical Mechanics of Networks; Network Growth; INDEX
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (251 pages, 8 pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 570.285; Biomolecules -- Mechanical properties; Statistical mechanics; Computational biology; Computational Biology; Biomechanical Phenomena; Models, Statistical; NATURE -- Reference; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420010787; 1420010786
• Related ISBNs: 1584885564
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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