| Description |
xiii, 567 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The preoccupations of twenty-first-century biology / David Baltimore -- The world as physics, mathematics and nothing else / Alexander Varshavsky -- Physical biology: 4D Visualization of complexity / Ahmed H. Zewail -- Revolutionary developments from atomic to extended structural imaging / John Meurig Thomas -- Physical biology at the crossroads / Carlos J. Bustamante -- The challenge of quasi-regular structures in biology / Roger D. Kornberg -- The future of biological X-ray analysis / Douglas C. Rees -- Reinterpreting the genetic code: implications for macromolecular design, evolution and analysis / David A. Tirrell -- Designing ligands to bind tightly to proteins / George M. Whitesides [and others] -- Biology by the numbers / Rob Phillips -- Eppur si muove / Michele Parrinello -- Protein folding and beyond: energy landscapes and the organization of living matter in time and space / Peter G. Wolynes. |
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Protein folding and misfolding: from atoms to organisms / Christopher M. Dobson -- A systems approach to medicine will transform healthcare / Leroy Hood -- The neurobiology of consciousness / Christof Koch and Florian Mormann -- Computer-aided drug discovery: physics-based simulations from the molecular to the cellular level / J. Andrew McCammon -- Precision measurements in biology / Stephen R. Quake -- Potassium channels and the atomic basis of selective ion conduction / Roderick MacKinnon -- The 2007 Welch Award Papers. Symmetry breaking, delocalization and dynamics in electron transfer systems / Noel S. Hush ; The initial value representation of semiclassical theory: a practical way for adding quantum effects to classical molecular dynamics simulations of complex molecular systems / William H. Miller. |
| Summary |
This title brings about the confluence of various concepts and tools to address significant problems of our time in physical biology and adjacent disciplines. |
| Subject |
Biophysics.
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Biochemistry.
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Molecular biology.
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Biophysics.
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Biochemistry.
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Molecular Biology.
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Biochemistry. (OCoLC)fst00831961
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Biophysics. (OCoLC)fst00832656
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Molecular biology. (OCoLC)fst01024734
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Molekularbiologie.
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Biophysik.
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Biochemie.
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| Added Author |
Zewail, Ahmed H.
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| Standard No. |
9781848162006 |
| ISBN |
9781848161993 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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1848161999 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9781848162006 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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1848162006 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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