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Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics
Product Review From the foreword This volume has an important role to play in the transition of the field from one limited to specialists to the mainstream of molecular biology. The emphasis on an in-depth description of the computational methodology will make the volume useful as an introduction to the field for many people who are doing simulations for the first time.A number of well-chosen 'special topics' involving applications of simulation methods are described.several chapters broaden the perspective of the book by introducing approaches other than molecular dynamics for modeling proteins and their interactions.equally importantis the biophysical aspect of computational biology. I am very pleased to have been given the opportunity to contribute a Foreword to this very useful book. It is a particular pleasure for me to do so because all the editors and fifteen of the authors are alumnae of my research group at Harvard, where molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules originated. ---Martin Karplus, Laboratoire de chimie Biophysique, ISIS Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts The Royal Society of Chemistry "…a ‘one-stop-shop' where non-specialists can quickly pick up the gist of the majority of general computational chemistry methods." Reader Reviews This reference is a nice example of Moore's Law impinging on many fields. The falling cost of computation makes the book's techniques feasible as routine research tools. Many types of methods are described. Such as solving systems of coupled nonlinear differential rate equations. Or applying free energy minimisation ideas from physics, to ever-larger molecular systems, to find their optimal shapes. This is illustrated with nice screen captures of the molecules. The book indicates how computational chemistry has emerged as an intellectually viable branch of chemistry. Comment | | (Report this)
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