Full Description
This book presents recent research
results relating to applications of nonlinear dynamics, focusing specifically
on four topics of wide interest: heart dynamics, DNA/RNA, cell mobility, and
proteins. The book derives from the First BCAM Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics
in Biological Systems, held in June 2014 at the Basque Center of Applied
Mathematics (BCAM). At this international meeting, researchers from different
but complementary backgrounds, including molecular dynamics, physical chemistry,
bio-informatics and biophysics, presented their most recent results and
discussed the future direction of their studies using theoretical, mathematical
modeling and experimental approaches. Such was the level of interest stimulated
that the decision was taken to produce this publication, with the organizers of
the event acting as editors. All of the contributing authors are researchers working
on diverse biological problems that can be approached using nonlinear dynamics.
The book will appeal especially to applied mathematicians, biophysicists, and
computational biologists.
Contents
1 Jacobo
Aguirre and Michael Stich: Modeling
of evolving RNA replicators.- 2 Ramon
Xulvi-Brunet, Gregory W. Campbell, Sudha Rajamani, José I. Jiménez and Irene A.
Chen: Quantitative
analysis of synthesized nucleic acid pools.- 3 Till D. Frank, Miguel A.S. Cavadas, Lan K. Nguyen and Alex
Cheong: Non-linear
dynamics in transcriptional regulation: biological logic gates.- 4 Sergio Alonso: Pattern formation at cellular
membranes by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of proteins.- 5 Luca Gerardo-Giorda: An introduction to mathematical
and numerical modeling of heart electrophysiology.- 6 Blas Echebarria, Enric
Alvarez-Lacalle, Inma R. Cantalapiedra and Angelina Peñaranda: Mechanisms
underlying electro-mechanical cardiac alternans.
