发信人: middleman (in the middle), 信区: Biology
标 题: Re: 请教metabolism
发信站: The unknown SPACE (Mon Jan 27 21:42:05 2003) WWW-POST

Barabasi just published a new book, which may be of interest:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738206679/103-6308400-1751034?v
i=glance

His personal Homepage is at:
http://www.nd.edu/~alb/

He presented fascinating ideas, which are at least inspiring biologists to
think what they are studying from a rather different perspective and some
collaborations between traditional rather different disciplines, e.g.,
biology, computer science, and statistics. BTW, I am a fourth year graduating
CS student.

Wish your comments!

【 在 cnyy (tea) 的大作中提到: 】
: It's elegant and simple but biologists won't appreciate these.
: I am in biophysics major as first year graduate student and I am from
physics
: background totally. Barabasi is a phycisist in statistical physics.
: Why you care so much about biologists appreciate it or not?
: There are no many theorists in biology before. So you can't expect the trend
: changes so quickly.
: Power law is just the first step, if no further development( such as can you

: differentiate or group different biological network by different power or
: other topology characteristic network? Is there continuous characteristics
to
: characterize the order of a network? In nowdays theory, it can only
: differentiate random network and network with order, it's far from enough in
: my opinion)It will be just interesting, no biological significance.
: You can ask for other pure biologist's opinion. But I guess they have no
time
: to read the article......
: The power law stuff(not only in network theory) has been a game for many
years
: among guys dealing with complex system. It really means some elegant
: universality, but it's not enough.
:
:
: 【 在 middleman (in the middle) 的大作中提到: 】
: : from a pure CS point of view, power law and scale-free networks are simple
: and
: : elegant. I don't think Barabasi is a biologist himself, who just found
that
: : power law also exits in cells and got chances to publish heavily. I don't
: know
: : much about biology myself, so I am interested how biologists think about
his
: : work, use his work, and the real value of his work to the study of
biology.
: : Initially I was studying link structures of the Web and found his work by
: : chance. I then know this kind of principle also exists in cells, which
seems
: : quite universal. I don't know whether power law and scale-free networks
will
: : really be important to biology, but very curious to know. Thanks! Could I
: know
: : your major in biology?
: :
: : 【 在 cnyy (tea) 的大作中提到: 】
: : : In my personal opinion, typical biologists would't care about these
stuff.
:
: : : His work is really interesting. If you think it's interesting, just do
it.
: I
: : : think his work is appreciated by phycisists, mathematicists, computer
: : : scientists. So you have interest in these system biology stuff?
: : : 【 在 middleman (in the middle) 的大作中提到: 】
: : : : no, I am a CS major. Is the study of Scale-free networks and power
laws
: in
: : : : cells really important to Biology? I was fascinated by Barabasi's work
: and
: : : : plan to do some research in this area. Wish your advice! Thanks a lot!
: : : :
: : : : 【 在 cnyy (tea) 的大作中提到: 】
: : : : : You can see the detail of its mathematical form in the article.(It's


--
※ 来源:．The unknown SPACE bbs.mit.edu．[FROM: 193.61.]