| Calculating the Secrets of Life: Applications of the Mathematical Sciences in Molecular Biology Contributor(s): National Research Council (Author), Division on Engineering and Physical Sci (Author), Commission on Physical Sciences Mathemat (Author) |
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ISBN: 0309075025 ISBN-13: 9780309075022 Publisher: National Academies Press OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Molecular Biology |
| Dewey: 574.880 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 285 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As researchers have pursued biology's secrets to the molecular level, mathematical and computer sciences have played an increasingly important role?in genome mapping, population genetics, and even the controversial search for Eve, hypothetical mother of the human race. In this first-ever survey of the partnership between the two fields, leading experts look at how mathematical research and methods have made possible important discoveries in biology. The volume explores how differential geometry, topology, and differential mechanics have allowed researchers to wind and unwind DNA's double helix to understand the phenomenon of supercoiling. It explains how mathematical tools are revealing the workings of enzymes and proteins. And it describes how mathematicians are detecting echoes from the origin of life by applying stochastic and statistical theory to the study of DNA sequences. This informative and motivational book will be of interest to researchers, research administrators, and educators and students in mathematics, computer sciences, and biology. |