Category Theoretic Analysis of Hierarchical Protein Materials and Social Networks

Materials in biology span all the scales from Angstroms to meters and typically consist of complex hierarchical assemblies of simple building blocks. Here we describe an application of category theory to describe structural and resulting functional properties of biological protein materials by devel...

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Main Authors: Giesa, Tristan (Contributor), Wood, Elizabeth (Contributor), Spivak, David I (Author), Buehler, Markus J (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Computational Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (Contributor), Beuhler, Markus Jochen (Contributor), Spivak, David I. (Contributor), Buehler, Markus J. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2012-02-15T17:50:22Z.
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