| Title | Life : an introduction to complex systems biology |
| Author(s) | K. Kaneko |
| Publication | Berlin, Springer, 2006. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xiv, 369 p.) : ill |
| Abstract Note | "This book examines life not from the reductionist point of view, but rather asks the question: what are the universal properties of living systems and how can one construct from there a phenomenological theory of life that leads naturally to complex processes such as reproductive cellular systems, evolution and differentiation? The presentation has been deliberately kept fairly non-technical so as to address a broad spectrum of students and researchers from the natural sciences and informatics."--Jacket |
| Contents Note | How should living systems be studied? -- Constructive biology -- Basic concepts in dynamical systems -- Origin of bioinformation -- Origin of a cell with recursive growth -- Universal statistics of a cell with recursive growth -- Cell differentiation and development -- Irreversible differentiation from stem cell and robust development -- Pattern formation and origin of positional information -- Genetic evolution with phenotypic fluctuations -- Speciation as a fixation of phenotypic differentiation -- Conclusion |
| Notes | Based in part on a Japanese work published in 2003 by the University of Tokyo Press--cf. Preface. -Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-364) and index |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biological systems
2. Cellen (biologie)
3. Cytology
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. LIFE
7. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
8. NATURAL HISTORY
9. NATURE
10. Organismen
11. SCIENCE
12. Systeemtheorie
13. Systems biology
14. Theoretische biologie
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| Item Type | eBook |