This book provides an overview of emerging computational methods for modeling biologically and medically relevant systems. The book describes multiple methods for modeling, visualizing and rationally altering systems at various length scales.

Ion channels are biological nanotubes that are formed by membrane proteins. Because ion channels regulate all electrical activities in living cells, understanding their mechanisms at a molecular level is a fundamental problem in biology. This book deals with recent breakthroughs in ion-channel research that have been brought about by the combined effort of experimental biophysicists and computational physicists, who together are beginning to unravel the story of these exquisitely designed biomolecules. With chapters by leading experts, the book is aimed at researchers in nanodevices and biosensors, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biology and the physical sciences.

This book explores the frontiers of research in bioinspiration, particularly in the areas of biomineralization, antifreeze protein and antifreeze effect. Includes the lotus effect and superhydrophobicity, structural colors in the animal kingdom and more.