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Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity

Proceedings of the XV Sitges Conference, Held at Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 June 1998

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1999

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  1. D. Reguera
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  2. J.M.G. Vilar
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  3. J.M. Rubí
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  • Methods of Physics are of growing importance in Biology.
  • This book presents a vast variety of new applications of Statistical Mechanics to biological problems.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 527)

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. From membranes to membrane machines

    • Reinhard Lipowsky
    Pages 1-23

  3. ‘Sausage string’ patterns in blood vessels at high blood pressures

    • Preben Alstrøm, Victor M. Eguíluz, Finn Gustafsson, Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou
    Pages 24-37

  4. Phase transitions in mesoscopic spherical membranes

    • M. V. Voinova
    Pages 38-45

  5. Modeling microtubule oscillations[1]

    • E. Jobs, D. E. Wolf, H. Flyvbjerg
    Pages 46-55

  6. Designing RNA folding cooperativity

    • Eivind Tøstesen, Shi-Jie Chen, Ken A. Dill
    Pages 56-61

  7. Scaling laws for protein folding

    • Wolfgang Wenzel, Kay Hamacher
    Pages 62-71

  8. Self-organizing networks of molecular machines in allosterically regulated enzymic reactions

    • A. S. Mikhailov, P. Stange, D. H. Zanette, B. Hess
    Pages 72-92

  9. Coupled Brownian motors

    • C. Van den Broeck, P. Reimann, R. Kawai, P. Hänggi
    Pages 93-111

  10. On the role of molecular machines in the origin of the genetic code

    • Gustavo Martínez-Mekler, Maximino Aldana, Germinal Cocho
    Pages 112-123

  11. Population dynamics and non-Hermitian localization

    • Karin A. Dahmen, David R. Nelson, Nadav M. Shnerb
    Pages 124-151

  12. Collective motion

    • András Czirók, Tamás Vicsek
    Pages 152-164

  13. A population dynamics approach to biological aging

    • R. M. C. de Almeida
    Pages 165-171

  14. Small-world networks

    • Steven Strogatz
    Pages 172-172

  15. Extended mean-field theory for networks of spiking neurons

    • Daniel J. Amit
    Pages 173-173

  16. Pattern formation in the developing visual cortex: Topological defects, their generation, motion, and annihilation

    • F. Wolf, T. Geisel
    Pages 174-193

  17. Complex spiking behavior from noise-driven neuron interaction

    • Ruedi Stoop
    Pages 194-204

  18. A new nonlinear model for pitch perception

    • Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Diego L. González, Oreste Piro
    Pages 205-216

  19. Statistical mechanics of network models of macroevolution and extinction

    • Ricard V. Solé
    Pages 217-250

  20. Exact analytical results in a simple model of self-organized biological evolution

    • Yu. M. Pis’mak
    Pages 251-260
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This book demonstrates the usefulness of tools from statistical mechanics for biology. It includes the new tendencies in topics like membranes, vesicles, microtubules, molecular motors, DNA, protein folding, phase transitions in biological systems, evolution, population dynamics, neural systems and biological oscillators, with special emphasis on the importance of statistical mechanics in their development. The book addresses researchers and graduate students.

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