
Molecular Dynamics - Practical Application
- Mechanism underlying the resistance to prion diseases in rabbits¿: a technology review from MIT and in 7 languages
Jiapu Zhang(Author)
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published on 3. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-3-8465-4843-1 (ISBN)
Description
In chemistry, physics, biophysics, biochemistry, biomedicine, bioinformatics, applied mathematics and theoretical physics, Molecular dynamics (MD) simulating physical movements of atoms and molecules is widely applied. Amber and Gromacs etc are very popular and practical MD packages. This book applies these packages to biomolecules and materials. It provides comprehensive MD materials and methods to put MD into actions. This book clearly has a value to MD simulation staff (in research or teaching) in the fields of chemistry, physics, biophysics, biochemistry, biomedicine, bioinformatics, applied mathematics and theoretical physics. This book fully illuminates MD application to prion proteins from many points of view. The author was awarded numerous world-wide impacts and fame for the successful MD application. Prion diseases can be caused by the body's own proteins not requiring either DNA, RNA, or both; they are "structural conformational" diseases so very proper to be studied by MD technologies. Rabbits, dogs and horses are reported to be immune to prion diseases. The author using MD technologies preliminarily revealed some surprising secrets from rabbits against prion diseases
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Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8465-4843-1 (9783846548431)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Dr. Jiapu Zhang is a professional "writer" in science, engineering, literature and history, etc. He was born in 1971. He got a bachelor's degree in 1993, and two master's degrees in research in 1996 and 2000 respectively. In 2005 he earned his Ph.D. degree and finished his first postdoc in 2008.