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Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics (Hardcover, 2002 ed.): M. Lassig, A. Valleriani Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
M. Lassig, A. Valleriani
R3,077 Discovery Miles 30 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This set of lecture notes gives a first coherent account on a novel aspect of the living world that can be called biological information. The book presents both a pedagogical and state-of-the art roadmap of this rapidly evolving field and covers the whole range from information which is encoded in the molecular genetic code to the description of large-scale evolution of complex species networks. The book will prove useful for all those who work at the interface of biology, physics and information science.

Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002): M. Lassig, A. Valleriani Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002)
M. Lassig, A. Valleriani
R2,890 Discovery Miles 28 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

People have always asked what distinguishes the living from the inanimate world and what uni?es the two. The ?elds of biology and physics have a long history of exchange. Milestones at the molecular level were the discoveries of the structure ofDNA, RNA, andproteins. It is not by coincidence that this exchange has intensi?ed in recent years. Laboratory experiments reach down to the level of single molecules. Moreover, thereisnowavastamountofgenomicinformation, whichisstillgrowingex- nentially due to the various sequencing projects. Biologists increasingly feel the need for theoretical models to interpret these data in a quantitative way. At the sametime, theoreticalphysicshasmadesigni?cantprogressinareaslikelyto be relevant for the understanding of biological systems. Some important ex- plesarecooperativephenomena, statisticsfarfromthermodynamicequilibrium, systemswithquencheddisorder, andsoftmatter. Some forms of biological matter have indeed become established areas of - searchwithinphysics, suchasbiomembranes, heteropolymers, molecularmotors, microtubules, neuralsystemsetc.Thisvolumeisfocusedonadi?erentaspect of the living world that can be calledbiologicalinformation, itscoding, rep- duction, andevolution.Biologicalinformationistranslatedintostructuresand patternsoveranenormousrangeofscales, fromsinglebiomoleculestospecies networks coupled over entire continents. Thestatisticaltheory of biological information lives not only in three-dim- sional space. It involves various abstract spaces in which this information is encodedandevolves, suchasnucleotidesequences, genenetworks, ortopologies of the 'tree of life'. The articles collected highlight a few directions of research that may become important parts of this emerging ?eld. The ?rst part of the book, MolecularInformationandEvolution, startswith twoarticlesonsequencesimilarityanalysis, acentralthemeinbioinformatics which has surprisingly deep connections to statistical physics. The genetic code, RNA, andproteinsarethreeexamplesoftheintricateinterplayofsequence, structure, andfunction

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