Kim Sneppen

Models of Life

Dynamics and Regulation in Biological Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An overview of current models of biological systems, reflecting the major advances that have been made over the past decade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 859g
• ISBN-13: 9781107061903
• ISBN-10: 1107061903
• Artikelnr.: 40910974

Autorenporträt

Kim Sneppen is Professor of Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute and Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Models of Life (CMOL) at Copenhagen University, Denmark. Drawing on experience across several academic disciplines, his work explores the frontier between complex dynamical systems and living systems, and in his role at CMOL he promotes hands-on development of quantitative models of central biological processes. Sneppen is also co-author of Physics in Molecular Biology (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Life from a physics perspective
2. E. coli as a model system
3. Dynamics of regulatory links
4. Statistical mechanics of phage ¿
5. Diffusion and randomness in transcription
6. Stochastic genes and persistent decisions
7. Gene regulation and epigenetics in cis
8. Feedback circuits
9. Networks
10. Signalling and metabolic networks
11. Agent-based models of signalling and selection
12. Competition and diversity
13. Evolution and extinction
Appendix
References
Index.