Computational Modeling of Biological Systems

From Molecules to Pathways
2012
ISBN: 978-1-4899-8750-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering

Computational modeling is emerging as a powerful new approach to study and manipulate biological systems. Multiple methods have been developed to model, visualize, and rationally alter systems at various length scales, starting from molecular modeling and design at atomic resolution to cellular pathways modeling and analysis. Higher time and length scale processes, such as molecular evolution, have also greatly benefited from new breeds of computational approaches. This book provides an overview of the established computational methods used for modeling biologically and medically relevant systems.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dokholyan, Nikolay V

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Bioinformatik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Bioinformatik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Molekulare Medizin, Zellbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Biophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Biophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Molecular Modeling.- Introduction to Molecular Dynamics: Theory and Applications in Biomolecular Modeling.- The Many Faces of Structure-Based Potentials: From Protein Folding Landscapes to Structural Characterization of Complex Biomolecules.- Discrete Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Biomolecules.- Small Molecule Docking from Theoretical Structural Models.- Homology Modeling: Generating Structural Models to Understand Protein Function and Mechanism.- Quantum Mechanical Insights into Biological Processes at the Electronic Level.- Part II Modeling Macromolecular Assemblies.- Multiscale Modeling of Virus Structure, Assembly and Dynamics.- Mechanisms and Kinetics of Amyloid Aggregation Investigated by a Phenomenological Coarse-Grained Model.- The Structure of Intrinsically Disordered Peptides Implicated in Amyloid Diseases: Insights from Fully Atomistic Simulations.- Part III Modeling Cells and Cellular Pathways.- Computer Simulations of Mechano-Chemical Networks: Choreographing Actin Dynamics in Cell Motility.- Computational and Modeling Strategies for Cell Motility.- Theoretical Analysis of Molecular Transport Across Membrane Channels and Nanopores.- Part IV Modeling Evolution.- Modeling Protein Evolution.- Modeling Structural and Genomic Constraints in the Evolution of Proteins.- Modeling Proteins at the Interface of Structure, Evolution, and Population Genetics.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Nikolay Dokholyan joined the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor. In 2008, Dr. Dokholyan was promoted as Associate Professor. Dr. Dokholyan is currently the Director of the Center for Computational and Systems Biology and the Graduate Director of the Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics at UNC.