Daniel A. Beard, Hong Qian

Chemical Biophysics

Quantitative Analysis of Cellular Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Was the first textbook to apply rigorous physical chemistry principles to mathematical and computational modelling of biochemical systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 819g
• ISBN-13: 9780521870702
• ISBN-10: 0521870704
• Artikelnr.: 23841618

Autorenporträt

Daniel A. Beard is Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Center, Medical College of Wisconsin. He researches nonequilibrium thermodynamics in biochemical networks.
Hong Qian is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Washington. His research interests span computational systems biology, molecular biophysics and mathematical biology and include stochastic analysis and statistical physics of biological systems.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Background Material: 1. Concepts from physical chemistry
2. Conventions and calculations for biochemical systems
3. Chemical kinetics and transport processes
Part II. Analysis and Modeling of Biochemical Systems: 4. Enzyme-catalyzed reactions
5. Biochemical signaling modules
6. Biochemical reaction networks
7. Coupled biochemical systems and membrane transport
Part III. Special Topics: 8. Spatially distributed systems and reaction-diffusion modeling
9. Constraint-based analysis of biochemical systems
10. Biomacromolecular structure and molecular association
11. Stochastic biochemical systems and the chemical master equation
12. Appendix: the statistical basis of thermodynamics
Bibliography
Index.