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9780309048866

Calculating the Secrets of Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780309048866

  • ISBN10:

    0309048869

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-04-01
  • Publisher: Natl Academy Pr
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Table of Contents

The Secrets of Life: A Mathematician's Introduction to Molecular Biologyp. 1
Mapping Heredity: Using Probabilistic Models and Algorithms to Map Genes and Genomesp. 25
Seeing Conserved Signals: Using Algorithms to Detect Similarities Between Biosequencesp. 56
Hearing Distant Echoes: Using Extremal Statistics to Probe Evolutionary Originsp. 90
Calibrating the Clock: Using Stochastic Processes to Measure the Rate of Evolutionp. 114
Winding the Double Helix: Using Geometry, Topology, and Mechanics of DNAp. 153
Unwinding the Double Helix: Using Differential Mechanics to Probe Conformational Changes in DNAp. 179
Lifting the Curtain: Using Topology to Probe the Hidden Action of Enzymesp. 202
Folding the Sheets: Using Computational Methods to Predict the Structure of Proteinsp. 236
Appendix: Chapter Authorsp. 272
Indexp. 277
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