Emergent Collective Properties, Networks and Information in Biology

Volume 40

By: J. Ricard, Giorgio Bernardi (Editor)

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Hardcover | 6 April 2006 | Edition Number 40

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The concept of network as a mathematical description of a set of states, or events, linked according to a certain topology has been developed recently and has led to a novel approach of real world. This approach is no doubt important in the field of biology. In fact biological systems can be considered networks. Thus, for instance, an enzyme-catalysed reaction is a network that links, according to a certain topology, the various states of the protein and of its complexes with the substrates and products of the chemical reaction. Connections between neurons, social relations in animal and human populations are also examples of networks. Hence there is little doubt that the concept of network transgresses the boundaries between traditional scientific disciplines.

This book is aimed at discussing in physical terms these exciting new topics on simple protein model lattices, supramolecular protein edifices, multienzyme and gene networks.

*Physical and mathematical approach of biological phenomena.
*Offers biochemists and biologists the mathematical background required to understand the text.
*Associates in the same general formulation, the ideas of communication of a message and organization of a system.
*Provides a clear-cut definition and mathematical expression of the concepts of reduction, integration, emergence and complexity that were so far time-honoured and vague

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Preface
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
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