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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Was the first textbook to apply rigorous physical chemistry principles to mathematical and computational modelling of biochemical systems. Zusammenfassung Chemical Biophysics provides an engineering-based approach to biochemical system-analysis for graduate level courses on systems biology! computational bioengineering and molecular biophysics. It was the first textbook to apply rigorous physical chemistry principles to mathematical and computational modelling of biochemical systems for an interdisciplinary audience. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
