1st Edition
by Ivet Bahar (Author), Robert L. Jernigan (Author), Ken A. Dill (Author)
Protein Actions: Principles and Modeling
is aimed at graduates, advanced undergraduates, and any professional
who seeks an introduction to the biological, chemical, and physical
properties of proteins. Broadly accessible to biophysicists and
biochemists, it will be particularly useful to student and professional
structural biologists and molecular biophysicists, bioinformaticians and
computational biologists, biological chemists (particularly drug
designers) and molecular bioengineers.
The book begins by
introducing the basic principles of protein structure and function. Some
readers will be familiar with aspects of this, but the authors build up
a more quantitative approach than their competitors. Emphasizing
concepts and theory rather than experimental techniques, the book shows
how proteins can be analyzed using the disciplines of elementary
statistical mechanics, energetics, and kinetics. These chapters
illuminate how proteins attain biologically active states and the
properties of those states. The book ends with a synopsis the roles of
computational biology and bioinformatics in protein science.
