Special Issue Contributions from the Measurement Techniques in Biology Division

Special issue: single molecule techniques.

Technological advances in the detection and manipulation of single molecules have enabled new insights into the function, structure and interactions of biomolecules. This Special Issue was launched to account for the rapid progress in the field of "Single Molecule Techniques". Four original research articles and seven review articles provide an introduction, as well as an in-depth discussion, o...

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Short Communication SPECIAL ISSUE: Island Plant Biology—Celebrating Carlquist’s Legacy Introduction to the Special Issue: Advances in island plant biology since Sherwin Carlquist’s Island Biology

Sherwin Carlquist’s seminal publications—in particular his classic Island Biology, published in 1974—formulated hypotheses specific to island biology that remain valuable today. This special issue brings together some of the most interesting contributions presented at the First Island Biology Symposium hosted in Honolulu on 7–11 July 2014. We compiled a total of 18 contributions that present da...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Systems Biology and Simulation

The 21st century has been recognized as the century of biology, and new technologies and methods are vastly accelerating the pace of discovery in biology and medicine with a growing impact on our lives. New developments and discoveries in biology do, however, often depend on an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses, among others, chemistry, physics, mathematics and the systems sciences. T...

Foreword: special issue on mathematical programming in biology and medicine

In recent years, mathematical programming and optimization techniques have been increasingly applied to various fields of biological and medical sciences, and in many cases have become indispensable tools. This volume contains a collection of five papers in this area. In this foreword, we aim to provide a little context for the applications described in these papers and, in particular, their us...