Reading material for MOL 410/510

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Books:

  • main textbook: Steven H. Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering; Westview Press
  • textbook used in previous years: Kaplan and Glass, Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics, Springer-Verlag. Covers much of the material we cover in class.

Papers: (Please see schedule for which papers go with what lectures.)

 

Essential Additional Reading

R.M. May. Simple Mathematical Models with very Complicated Dynamics, Nature, Vol. 261, p. 459, 10 June 1976. May76 [1]

H. Kierstead and L.B. Slobodkin. The Size of Water Masses Containing Plankton Blooms, Journal of Marine Research Vol. 12, p. 141-147, 1953. Kie53 [2]

R. Fitzhugh. Impulses and physiological states in theoretical models of nerve membrane. Biophysical Journal. Vol. 1, p. 445-466, 1961. Fit61 [3]

M.E. Wall, A. Rechsteiner and L.M. Rocha. Singular value decomposition and principal component analysis In A Practical Approach to Microarray Data Analysis. D.P. Berrar, W. Dubitzky, M. Granzow, eds. pp. 91-109, Kluwer: Norwell, MA (2003). LANL LA-UR-02-4001. Wal03 [4]

 

Optional additional reading

Joel E. Cohen. How Many People Can Earth Hold? Discover, Vol. 13, No. 11, p. 114-119, November 1992. HTML version at Discover’s website. Coh92 [5]

A. Turing. The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, (Series B, No.641, Vol. 237, 14 August 1952). Tur52 [6]

G. M. Süel, J. Garcia-Ojalvo, L.M. Liberman and M.B. Elowitz. An excitable gene regulatory circuit induces transient cellular differentiation Nature, 440, 545-550 (23 March 2006) Sue06 [7] Sue06_SupMat [8]

E.G. Emberly, R. Mukhopadhyay, N.S. Wingreen and C. Tang. Flexibility of alpha-Helices: Results of a Statistical Analysis of Database Protein Structures . J. Mol. Biol. , Vol. 327, No. 1, pp 229-237. 2003. Emb03 [9]

O. Alter, P.O. Brown and D. Botstein. Singular Value Decomposition for Genome-Wide Expression Data Processing and Modeling. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 97, pp 10101-10106, 2000. Alt00 [10]