Protein Actions Principles And Modeling (Pb 2017) Paperback

Protein Actions: Principles and Modeling is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as professionals interested in the biological, chemical, and physical properties of proteins. Accessible to biophysicists and biochemists, this book will be especially useful for structural biologists, molecular biophysicists, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, biological chemists (particularly those involved in drug design), and molecular bioengineers. The book starts with an introduction to the fundamental principles of protein structure and function. While some readers may be familiar with these concepts, the authors present a more quantitative approach than many other texts. Focusing on concepts and theory rather than experimental techniques, it demonstrates how proteins can be analyzed through elementary statistical mechanics, energetics, and kinetics. These chapters explore how proteins reach biologically active states and the characteristics of those states. The book concludes with an overview of the roles of computational biology and bioinformatics in protein science.