Quantitative Biosciences - Joshua S Weitz

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Biographie:

• Preface
  • Quantitative biosciences at all scales of life
  • The goal
  • The structure of this book
  • You can do it
  • Acknowledgments
  • I Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
    • 1 Fluctuations and the Nature of Mutations
      • 1.1 Chance favors the independent mutation
      • 1.2 Cellular phenotypes
      • 1.3 Mutations that depend on selection
      • 1.4 Independent mutations: A continuous model
      • 1.5 Modeling the growth of (discrete) mutants
      • 1.6 Variance of mutants when mutations are independent of selection
      • 1.7 On (in)direct inference
      • 1.8 Take-home messages
      • 1.9 Homework problems
      • 1.10 Technical appendix
      • 2 Bistability of Genetic Circuits
        • 2.1 More is di?erent
        • 2.2 Molecular cast and scene
        • 2.3 The ?rst ingredient: Regulation of a target gene
        • 2.4 Feedback and bistability&mdash...

          Sommaire:
          Joshua S. Weitz is professor and the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland. Previously, he held the Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he founded the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences. He is the author of Quantitative Viral Ecology: Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts (Princeton)....