Stochastic Processes in Cell Biology

• Main Author: Bressloff, Paul C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 41
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Cell biology.; Probabilities.; Biomathematics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Cell Biology.

This book develops the theory of continuous and discrete stochastic processes within the context of cell biology.  A wide range of biological topics are covered including normal and anomalous diffusion in complex cellular environments, stochastic ion channels and excitable systems, stochastic calciu...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Diffusion in Cells: Random walks and Brownian Motion
• Stochastic Ion Channels
• Polymers and Molecular Motors
• Sensing the Environment: Adaptation and Amplification in Cells
• Stochastic Gene Expression and Regulatory Networks
• Transport Processes in Cells
• Self-Organization in Cells I: Active Processes
• Self-Organization in Cells II: Reaction-Diffusion Models
• The WKB Method and Large Deviation Theory
• Probability Theory and Martingales.