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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Giesa, Tristan, Wood, Elizabeth, Spivak, David I, Buehler, Markus J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69110
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4173-9659
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-9199