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Elsevier's Life Sciences collection helps researchers get comprehensive coverage and up-to-date information on the study of living organisms, their processes, and interrelationships, spanning disciplines like biology, genetics, and biochemistry, and addressing emerging trends such as genomics, biotechnology, and sustainability, essential for advancing knowledge and driving innovation in the field.

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    • Techniques in Protein Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 1989
      • Tony E. Hugli
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Techniques in Protein Chemistry is based on the papers presented on the second annual meeting of the Protein Society in August 1988. The compendium contains the significant technical advances in protein chemistry. The book highlights topics that are of general interest and practical value to protein chemists. Emphasis is given to methods and applications in protein sequencing; applications of mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance technology; limitations of amino acid microanalysis; and high-performance liquid chromatography. The book will be a good reference for chemists and researchers in the field of protein chemistry.

    • Advanced Scientific Computing in BASIC with Applications in Chemistry, Biology and Pharmacology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 4
      • January 1, 1989
      • P Valko + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      This book gives a practical introduction to numerical methods and presents BASIC subroutines for real-life computations in the areas of chemistry, biology, and pharmacology. The choice of BASIC as the programming language is motivated by its simplicity, its availability on all personal computers and by its power in data acquisition. While most of the scientific packages currently available in BASIC date back to the period of limited memory and speed, the subroutines presented here can handle a broad range of realistic problems with the power and sophistication needed by professionals and with simple, step-by-step instructions for students and beginners.Please note that a diskette containing the 37 program modules and 39 sample programs listed in the book is no longer available.The main task considered in the book is that of extracting useful information from measurements via modelling, simulation, and statistical data evaluations. Efficient and robust numerical methods have been chosen to solve related problems in numerical algebra, nonlinear equations and optimization, parameter estimation, signal processing, and differential equations. For each class of routines an introduction to the relevant theory and techniques is given, so that the reader will recognise and use the appropriate method for solving his or her particular problem. Simple examples illustrate the use and applicability of each method.

    • Vaccine Biotechnology

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 1989
      • James L. Bittle + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Advances in Veterinary Science and Comparative Medicine, Volume 33: Vaccine Biotechnology presents advances in the field of vaccinology and approaches in the development of vaccines. This book discusses the developments in vaccinology in a comparative way, examining the successes and failures in human and veterinary medicine for the overall benefit of infectious disease control. The diverse technologies contributing to the improvement of vaccines are also covered, including the role of structural analysis, molecular anatomy, nature of antigenic epitopes, and surfaces of infectious organisms. This publication likewise considers the improvements in safety, efficacy, stability, simplicity of production, and cost in the applications of recombinant-DNA technology, which would mean wider availability and use of vaccines in the future. This volume is valuable to medical, biomedical, and veterinary scientists.

    • Synthetic Polypeptides as Antigens

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 19
      • November 1, 1988
      • J.P. Briand + 3 more
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 0 8 0 8 5 8 8 8 3
      Synthetic Polypeptides as Antigens is the first volume to give a comprehensive treatment under one cover of the various techniques used for synthesizing peptides by the solid phase approach, for coupling them to carrier molecules and analyzing their immunochemical activity by a variety of immunoassays. This book also describes methods for analyzing the antigenic structure of proteins and predicting the location of their antigenic sites. Recent advances in the detection of gene products with antipeptide antibodies, and the still controversial use of synthetic peptides as vaccines are also described. The book provides: - detailed descriptions of procedures - extensive bibliography - detailed analysis of the structural basis of antigenicity in proteins Synthetic Polypeptides as Antigens is intended for researchers and graduate students in molecular biology, protein structure, immunology, virology, and microbiology. Those using synthetic peptides as immunological probes will find this a most useful book, as will those wishing to overcome the difficulties of achieving antigenic mimicry by synthesis.

    • Hydrolytic Enzymes

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 16
      • March 1, 1988
      • K. Brocklehurst + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      This newest volume in the impressive New Comprehensive Biochemistry series presents up-to-date discussions of six types of hydrolytic enzyme that are well characterized structurally: aspartic-, cysteins-, and serine-proteinases, carboxypeptidase A, pancreatic ribonuclease A, and the phosphomonoesterases... The emphasis is on molecular mechanisms deduced by crystallographic, kinetic, spectroscopic and molecular genetic studies. The chapters on the various types of proteinases are complemented by others on proteinase inhibitors and intracellular proteolysis. This book will prove valuable to researchers in general biochemistry, particularly those with interest in enzyme mechanism and protein chemistry, and to Honours and Postgraduate students.

    • Pulse Methods in 1D & 2D Liquid-Phase NMR

      • 1st Edition
      • March 28, 1988
      • Wallace S. Brey
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      FROM THE PREFACE: Pulse Methods in 1D and 2D Liquid-Phase NMR is written to enable the practicing NMR spectroscopist to understand and apply the varied and powerful new techniques developed in the past few years for obtaining spectra with greatly increased information content and from smaller and smaller samples. The intent is to describe both theory and practice in simple and detailed fashion so that the methods may be critically evaluated and effectively used in any potential application. As methods become more complex they require more instrument time, and it is important to be able to judge whether the investment of this time is justified. It is also essential for the spectroscopist to be in a position to evaluate the capabilities of the instrumentation available, as well as the additional requirements for utilization of particular new methods.The material in this book assumes a knowledge of continuous-wave NMR methods as well as an elementary understanding of the normal pulsed Fourier-transform spectroscopic procedures, together with a knowledge of such related phenomena as the nuclear Overhauser effect. Although much of the treatment is necessarily methematical, this aspect of the presentation has been simplified as much as possible.

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