Emergent Collective Properties, Networks and Information in Biology: Volume 40

by J. Ricard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444521593
• ISBN13: 9780444521590
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.5"