Viruses In All Dimensions
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Viruses In All Dimensions
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Author : Rafael Ball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Viruses In All Dimensions written by Rafael Ball and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
Microorganisms, viruses and computer programmes encode all the information they need to reproduce and spread themselves. The mechanisms in the living world, in viruses and even in the world of technical systems are amazingly similar. The book shows how great the parallels of these replication systems are and what they are based on. The excursus also leads into the fascinating world of genetics, to the question of what constitutes life, and to software that replicates itself independently. Content: · What is life? · Basic concepts of molecular genetics · Viruses and early genetics · Algorithms and self-replicating computer programs · What is information? · Coding of information in technology and biology · Coevolution of life and technology The author Rafael Ball holds a PHD in biology, is a historian of science and a librarian. He is director of the ETH Library Zurich and lecturer in library science and management. He works on questions of information theory, scholarly communication and the effects of digitisation He is the author of numerous relevant publications, editor of information science journals and speaker at meetings and conferences.
Viruses In All Dimensions
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Author : Rafael Ball
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-30
Viruses In All Dimensions written by Rafael Ball and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-30 with Computers categories.
Microorganisms, viruses, and computer programs encode all the information necessary to reproduce and spread themselves. Yet these mechanisms are amazingly similar in the animate world, in the world of viruses, and even in the world of technical systems. The book shows how great the parallels are between these various animate and inanimate replicating systems and what they are based on. The excursion also leads into the fascinating world of genetics, to the question of what defines life and into the programming of software that multiplies itself independently. Finally, the question is derived whether and to what extent such self-replicating technical systems can become as dangerous as infectious viruses in triggering pandemics, such as the Corona pandemic in 2020.
Viruses Essential Agents Of Life
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Author : Günther Witzany
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Viruses Essential Agents Of Life written by Günther Witzany and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Science categories.
A renaissance of virus research is taking centre stage in biology. Empirical data from the last decade indicate the important roles of viruses, both in the evolution of all life and as symbionts of host organisms. There is increasing evidence that all cellular life is colonized by exogenous and/or endogenous viruses in a non-lytic but persistent lifestyle. Viruses and viral parts form the most numerous genetic matter on this planet.
Cell Biology By The Numbers
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Author : Ron Milo
language : en
Publisher: Garland Science
Release Date : 2015-12-07
Cell Biology By The Numbers written by Ron Milo and has been published by Garland Science this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-07 with Science categories.
A Top 25 CHOICE 2016 Title, and recipient of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award. How much energy is released in ATP hydrolysis? How many mRNAs are in a cell? How genetically similar are two random people? What is faster, transcription or translation?Cell Biology by the Numbers explores these questions and dozens of others provid
Caught By Viruses
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Author : Michael G Rossmann
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2021-11-10
Caught By Viruses written by Michael G Rossmann and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-10 with Science categories.
The current book attempts to give a glimpse of the scientific life of Michael Rossmann. The book begins with his very interesting and moving autobiography. His enormous energy must have been evident already from early childhood when he and his mother had to emigrate from Nazi-Germany to England, via The Netherlands. Starting school with a new language was a challenge that he managed well with the assistance of understanding teachers. Crystallography soon became the tool to explore new worlds, unknown to everybody. With a skill for mathematics, he realized that the transform of a molecular structure in the diffraction pattern could be used for analysis of both symmetry and structural relationships. This method, molecular replacement (MR, also the initials of his name) became one of his great successes of his career. The previous book by him in this series (Selected Papers by Michael G Rossmann with Commentaries) covers his main contributions in this area.With an interest in symmetry, viruses became obvious objects to study. Rossmann attacked these monstrously large molecular assemblies with his unfailing energy and his appetite for real challenges. The amazing variation of molecular arrangements with icosahedral symmetry is truly amazing. This book includes a selection of reports of the structures of some giant viruses. As always, knowing the structure enhances the understanding of function greatly, in the case of viruses the mechanism of infection is a key problem. Rossmann has contributed many central insights in this area.Thus, this book is of interest both as an interesting personal story but also for research into viruses that repeatedly plague all living organisms on the planet, right now in the form of the corona virus pandemic.
Virus Structure
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Author : Robert William Horne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974-01-01
Virus Structure written by Robert William Horne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974-01-01 with Virus categories.
Virus Structure describes the physical characteristics of isolated viruses that represent typical structural groups, with particular reference to those features analyzed with the aid of the electron microscope. For descriptive purposes, the book has been divided into sections starting with the small icosahedral viruses and leading to the larger and more sophisticated structures, regardless of whether they are animal, plant, or bacterial viruses. These include double-stranded DNA icosahedral viruses, herpesvirus, viruses with helical symmetry, and viruses with complex or a combination of symme...
Plant Viruses And Virus Diseases
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Author : F.C. Bawden
language : en
Publisher: Daya Books
Release Date : 2002-04
Plant Viruses And Virus Diseases written by F.C. Bawden and has been published by Daya Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04 with Science categories.
The Subject Of Plant Viruses And Virus Diseases Are Receiving Increasing Attention At The Hands Of Research Scholars Such As Chemists, Crystallographers, Entomologists, Geneticists, Serologists, Physicists Etc. They Are Able To Bring Fresh Techniques To The Subject. The Book Is An Attempt To Describe And Correlate The Advances That Have Been Made So Far In The Study Of Plant Viruses, And Virus Diseases. During The Past Few Years, Many New Virus Diseases Have Been Described, Some Of Great Economic Importance And Some With Novel Kinds Of Symptoms; Much Has Been Done On The Factors That Affect Spread; And Insect Vectors Have Been Identified In Species Of Insects Previously Not Incriminated. More Viruses Have Been Purified And Their Chemical Constitution Has Been Further Elucidated, And The Advances In Electron Microscopy Have Provided Much Information On Their Morphology. All These Developments Have Been Incorporated In The Book. The Book Is A Treasure For Agriculture And Horticulture Departments And All Those Interested In These Subjects. Contents Chapter 1: Introduction; Definition Of Subject, Economic Importance, Historical, Views On The Nature Of Viruses, Nomenclature, Chapter 2: External Symptoms Of Infected Plants; Range Of Host Plant Reactions, Type Diseases, Virus Strains, Effects Of Environment On Symptoms, Chapter 3: Internal Symptoms Of Infected Plants; Intracellular Inclusions Formed By Tobacco Mosaic Viruses, Possible Relationship Between Tobacco Mosaic Viruses And The Intracellular Inclusions, Intracellular Inclusions Caused By Viruses Other Than Tobacco Mosaic, Internal Changes Other Than Intracellular Inclusions, Chapter 4: Methods Of Transmission; Grafting And The Use Of Dodder, Inoculation With Plant Extracts, Transmission By Insects, Seed Borne Viruses, Soil Borne Viruses, Chapter 5: The Relations Between Viruses And Their Vectors; Viruses Which Persist In Their Insect Vectors, Latent Period And Virus Multiplication In Vectors, Viruses Whose Vectors Soon Lose Infectivity, Effect Of The Number Of Insects In Transmitting, Chapter 6: Mutation, Interference Between Strains, And Recovery From Disease; Kinds Of Variation, Origin Of Variation, Acquired Immunity, Chapter 7: Serological Reactions Of Plant Viruses; Preparation Of Antisera, Methods Of Testing, The Antigenicity Of Plant Viruses, Neutralisation Of Infectivity, Specificity Of Serological Reactions, Effect Of Particle Shape Of Serological Reactions, Chapter 8: Quantitative Methods Of Assaying For Viruses; The Use Of Local Lesions, Starch Iodine Lesions, The Use Of Preciptin Tests, Chapter 9: The Purification Of Viruses; Treatment Of Plants, Tobacco Mosaic And Other Anisometric Viruses, Tomato Bushy Stunt And Other Crystalline Viruses, High Speed Centrifugation, Activity Of Purifie Preparations, Proteins From Healthy Plants, Chapter 10: Chemical And Physical Properties Of Purified Virus Preparations; Elementary Composition, Isolation And Properties Of Nucleic Acid, The Denatured Protein, Specific Volume And Hydration, Precipitation And Isoelectric Points, Chapter 11: The Crystallinity Of Plant Viruses; Optical Properties Of Crystals, Anistropy Of Flow And The Layering Phenomenon, Crystal And Liquid Crystals, Chapter 12: The Estimation Of Particle Sizes; Filtration, Sedimentation And Diffusion, Microscopy And X-Ray Diffraction, Additional Methods, The Aggregation Of Anisometric Viruses, Chapter 13: Types Of Inactivation; Inhibition Of Infectivity, Inactivation Without Lossof Serological Activity, Inactivation And Denaturation, Chapter 14: Taxonomy Of Viruses; Nomenclature And Classification, The Grouping Of Virus Strains, The Formation Of Larger Groups, Chapter 15: Virus Diseases And Host Plant Physiology; Host Plant Metabolism And Susceptibility, Effects Of Viruses On Host Plant Metabolism, The Movement Of Viruses, Chapter 16: Control Measures Against Virus Diseases; Curative Treatments, General Measures, Insect Borne Viruses, Viruses Transmitted Mechanically, Chapter 17: Speculations On The Origins Of Viruses.
Investigation Of The Three Dimensional Structure Of Viruses
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Author : Derek Thomas Logan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Investigation Of The Three Dimensional Structure Of Viruses written by Derek Thomas Logan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Viruses categories.
Assessment Of Future Scientific Needs For Live Variola Virus
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Author : Committee on the Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Variola Virus
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1999-05-14
Assessment Of Future Scientific Needs For Live Variola Virus written by Committee on the Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Variola Virus and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-14 with Medical categories.
In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared that smallpox had been eradicated. In 1986, WHO's international Ad Hoc Committee on Orthopox Virus Infections unanimously recommended destruction of the two remaining official stocks of variola virus, one at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the other at the VECTOR laboratory in Siberia. In June 1999, WHO decided to delay the destruction of these stocks. Informing that decision was Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Variola Virus, which examines: -- Whether the sequenced variola genome, vaccinia, and monkey pox virus are adequate for future research or whether the live variola virus itself is needed to assist in the development of antiviral therapies. -- What further benefits, if any, would likely be gained through the use of variola in research and development efforts related to agent detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. -- What unique potential benefits, if any, the study of variola would have in increasing our fundamental understanding of the biology, host-agent interactions, pathogenesis, and immune mechanisms of viral diseases.
Virus Structure
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2003-10-02
Virus Structure written by and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-02 with Science categories.
Virus Structure covers the full spectrum of modern structural virology. Its goal is to describe the means for defining moderate to high resolution structures and the basic principles that have emerged from these studies. Among the topics covered are Hybrid Vigor, Structural Folds of Viral Proteins, Virus Particle Dynamics, Viral Gemone Organization, Enveloped Viruses and Large Viruses. Covers viral assembly using heterologous expression systems and cell extracts Discusses molecular mechanisms in bacteriophage T7 procapsid assembly, maturation and DNA containment Includes information on structural studies on antibody/virus complexes
