Power Laws, Scale-Free Networks and Genome Biology

• Main Authors: Koonin, Eugene V. (Author), Wolf, Yuri I. (Author), Karev, Georgy P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
• Subjects: Physics.; Biochemistry.; Proteomics.; Bioinformatics.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Biochemistry, general.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Physics, general.

Power Laws, Scale-free Networks and Genome Biology deals with crucial aspects of the theoretical foundations of systems biology, namely power law distributions and scale-free networks which have emerged as the hallmarks of biological organization in the post-genomic era. The chapters in the book not...