Polymer and Cell Dynamics Multiscale Modelling and Numerical Simulations [Paperback]

Polymer and cell dynamics play an important role in processes like tumor growth, metastasis, embryogenesis, immune reactions and regeneration. Based on an international workshop on numerical simulations of polymer and cell dynamics in Bad Honnef (Germany) in 2000, this volume provides an overview of the relevant mathematical and numerical methods, their applications and limits. Polymer and Cell Dynamics will be of interest to scientists and advanced undergraduates.

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.

to Part I.- Molecular Dynamics Studies of Micelle and Capsid Self-assembly.- A Functional Study on Saposin B and C Using Experimentally Validated Models.- A Review of the Morph Server and the Macromolecular Motions Database: A Standardized System for Analyzing and Visualizing Macromolecular Motions in a Database Framework.- 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.- Milã$