Biophysics : searching for principles /
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| Author / Creator: | Bialek, William S., author. |
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| Imprint: | Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2012] |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 640 pages) : illustrations (some color. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13288932 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Exploring the phenomena: 1. Introduction. 1.1 About our subject ; 1.2 About this book
- . 2. Photon counting in vision. 2.1 A first look ; 2.2 Dynamics of single molecules ; 2.3 Biochemical amplification ; 2.4 The first synapse and beyond ; 2.5 Coda
- 3. Lessons, problems, principles
- Part II. Candidate principles: 4. Noise is not negligible. 4.1 Fluctuations and chemical reactions ; 4.2 Motility and chemotaxis in bacteria ; 4.3 Molecule counting, more generally ; 4.4 More about noise in perception ; 4.5 Proofreading and active noise reduction ; 4.6 Perpectives
- 5. No fine tuning. 5.1 Sequence ensembles ; 5.2 Ion channels and neuronal dynamics ; 5.3 The states of cells ; 5.4 Long time scales in neural networks ; 5.5 Perspectives
- 6. Efficient representation: 6.1 Entropy and information ; 6.2 Noise and information flow ; 6.3 Does biology care about bits? ; 6.4 Optimizing information flow ; 6.5. Gathering Information and Making Models ; 6.6. Perspectives
- 7. Outlook
- Appendix: Some Further Topics
- A.1. Poisson Processes
- A.2. Correlations, Power Spectra, and All That
- A.3. Diffraction and Biomolecular Structure
- A.4. Electronic Transitions in Large Molecules
- A.5. The Kramers Problem
- A.6. Berg and Purcell, Revisited
- A.7. Maximum Entropy
- A.8. Measuring Information Transmission.
