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: David I Spivak, Tristan Giesa, Elizabeth Wood, Markus J Buehler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21931622/pdf/?tool=EBI