Topology in Molecular Biology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Monastyrsky, Michail Ilych (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering,
• Subjects: Physics.; Molecular biology.; Bioinformatics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Molecular Medicine.

The book presents a class of new results in molecular biology for which topological methods and ideas are important. These include: the large-scale conformation properties of DNA; computational methods (Monte Carlo) allowing the simulation of large-scale properties of DNA; the tangle model of DNA re...

Table of Contents:

• Topology in Biology: From DNA Mechanics to Enzymology
• Monte Carlo Simulation of DNA Topological Properties
• Dynamics of DNA Supercoiling
• From Tangle Fractions to DNA
• Linear Behavior of the Writhe Versus the Number of Crossings in Rational Knots and Links
• Combinatories and Topology of the ?-Sandwich and ?-Barrel Proteins
• The Structure of Collagen
• Euler Characteristic, Dehn–Sommerville Characteristics, and Their Applications
• Hopf Fibration and Its Applications
• Multi-Valued Functionals, One-Forms and Deformed de Rham Complex
• The Spectral Geometry of Riemann Surfaces.