Bibliography
Below are listed some useful books and links related to the topics discussed
in this course.
Proteins
A very basic, cheap and fun review of Biology in the Princeton Review series
is
Biology
Smart, by Debbie Guest
A good book on proteins that is used at FSU for the course BCH 5205 Structure and Function of
Enzymes is
Introduction
to Protein Structure by Brandon and Tooze
This
modern book has many good color illustrations.
A good paper on proteins is
Tertiary
templates for proteins,
by Ponder and Richards, J. Mol. Biol. 193(1987), 775-791.
The
best and cheapest way to learn about proteins is a course online at Birkbeck College
in London, although
some of he links might be out of date.
Principles of Protein
Structure '97.
Also for viewing proteins it helps to have
software such as Rasmol, or
related plug ins for your browser, kinemage, or the swiss pdb viewer
Protein structures for viewing can be found on
the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank website.
Tutorials to learn protein structure using kinemage can be found at the Mage Page..
DNA,
RNA and genetics.
There are plenty of good books on
genetics. An easy way to learn the basics is to read about the Human
Genome Project on the website of the Department of Energy,
Primer on
Molecular Genetics
A good popular book on human genome is
Genome:
the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters, Ridley, Fourth Estate, London, 1999.
Applications
of mathematics to biology
A
good overview of mathematical techniques that can be applied to biology
can be found in the book Calculating the
secrets of life.
Symmetries
A
fun paper on the wallpaper groups is
Schattenschneider, The plane symmetry groups: their recognition
and notation, American Mathematical Monthly, 85(1978), 439-450.
A
computer program to generate images based on wallpaper groups is Kali.
You can download the Kali program
to your computer.
Crystallography
A good introduction to crystallography is the
book
Crystallography Made Crystal
Clear, by Gale Rhodes
A lot of information about crystallography and
useful links can be found on the homepage of Gail Rhodes.
For a pleasing discussion of Fourier analysis
and the phase problem in crystallography, see Kevin Cowtan’s
Book of Fourier.
Learning Maple
The Maple
Book by Frank Garvan is a good introduction to Maple 7. Most of the information is good for later
versions of Maple
Try also an online introduction, Learning
Guide which is for version 9.5, or the older A Maple essentials
tutorial.