Emergent collective properties, networks and information in biology /

• Main Author: Ricard, Jacques, 1929-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: New comprehensive biochemistry ; v. 40.
• Subjects: Biological systems.; Biochemistry.; Principal components analysis.; Reduction (Chemistry); NATURE > Reference.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.; Systems Biology > methods.; Models, Biological.; Statistics as Topic > methods.; Electronic books.

Using mathematical analysis to describe networks of and within living organisms.

Table of Contents:

• Molecular stereospecific recognition and reduction in cell biology
• Mathematical prelude : elementary set and probability theory
• Biological networks
• Information and communication in living systems
• Statistical mechanics of network information, integration and emergence
• On the mechanistic causes of network information, integration and emergence
• Information and organization of metabolic networks
• Functional connections in multienzyme complexes : information, and generalized microscopic reversibility
• Conformation changes and information flow in protein edifices
• Gene networks
• Stochastic fluctuations and network dynamics.