Polymer and Cell Dynamics
Subtitle: Multiscale Modeling and Numerical Simulations
By: edited by Wolfgang Alt, Mark Chaplain, Michael Griebel, Jürgen Lenz
Contributors: Chaplain, Mark; Griebel, Michael; Lenz, Jürgen
Series: Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction; Mathematics and biosciences in interaction
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; Imprint: Birkhäuser
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9783034894173; 9783034880435
Subjects: Mathematics; Computer simulation
Description: Polymer and cell dynamics play an important role in processes like tumor growth, metastasis, embryogenesis, immune reactions and regeneration. This volume - based on an international workshop on numerical simulations of polymer and cell dynamics in Bad Honnef (Germany) in 2000 - provides an overview of the relevant mathematical and numerical methods, their applications and limits. The contributions are from the fields of applied and numerical mathematics, scientific computing, theoretical physics, molecular biophysics, cell and molecular biology as well as chemical and biomedical engineering. The volume will be of interest to scientists and advanced undergraduates in the fields of biotechnology, biomedicine, applied mathematics, biomathematics, biophysics and bioinformatics.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: Introduction; title: Part I: Molecular Dynamics and Protein Configuration. Introduction to Part I. Molecular Dynamics Studies of Micelle and Capsid Self-assembly. A Functional Study on Saposin B and C Using Experimentally Validated Models. The Morph Server and the Macromolecular Motions Database: A Standardized System for Analyzing and Visualizing Macromolecular Motions in a Database Framework; title: Part II: Polymer Dynamics and Cell Motility. Introduction to Part II. Brownian Dynamics of Flexible Polymers in Flow. A Microscopic Model for the Dynamics of Actin Filaments in Motility Assays and Its Numerical Simulation. Multiparticle Modeling of Actin-Myosin Networks: From Molecular Interactions to Cell Motility. Analysis of Cell Motility Combining Cytomechanical Model Simulations and an Optical Flow Method. Micropipet Aspiration of the Human Neutrophil. Physical-Object-Oriented 3D Simulations of Cell Deformations and Migration; title: Part III: Multicellular Dynamics. Introduction to Part III.