Life
Subtitle: An Introduction to Complex Systems Biology (Understanding Complex Systems)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9783540326663
Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); Life Sciences - Biology - General; Computers; Science; Computer Books: General; Artificial Intelligence - General; Life Sciences - Biophysics; Science / Biophysics; bioinformation; complex systems biology; constructive biology; dynamical systems; Biological systems; Life; Molecular biology
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.