Theoretical and mathematical biology

1. Evolutionary biology

Schindler, Susanne ; Breidbach, Olaf and Jürgen Jost: Choosing the fittest as a speciation mechanism

Jost, Jürgen and Wei Li: The tragedy of the commons in a multi-population complementarity game

MIS-Preprint: 67/2010 [ARXIV]

Jost, Jürgen and John Pepper: Individual optimization efforts and population dynamics : a mathematical model for the evolution of resource allocation strategies, with applications to reproductive and mating systems

In: Theory in biosciences, 127 (2008) 1, p. 31-43

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Breidbach, Olaf and Jürgen Jost: Working in a multitude of trends - species balancing populations

In: Journal of zoological systematics and evolutionary research, 42 (2004) 3, p. 202-207

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Jost, Jürgen: On the notion of fitness, or: The selfish ancestor

In: Theory in biosciences, 121 (2003) 4, p. 331-350

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Jost, Jürgen and Yuan-Long Xin: Vanishing theorems for L2-cohomology groups

In: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 525 (2000), p. 95-112

MIS-Preprint: 43/1997 [DOI]

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Topics

Fitness

species

emergence of sexual differentiation

2. Population genetics

Tran, Tat Dat ; Hofrichter, Julian and Jürgen Jost: Information geometry and population genetics

Topics

Information geometric structures in population genetics

3. Molecular biology

Jost, Jürgen and Klaus Scherrer: Information theory, gene expression, and combinatorial regulation : a quantitative analysis

Bourguignon, Pierre-Yves ; Samal, Areejit ; Kepes, Francois ; Jost, Jürgen and Olivier Martin: Challenges in experimental data integration within genome-scale metabolic models

In: Algorithms for molecular biology, 5 (2010), 20

MIS-Preprint: 19/2010 [DOI] [ARXIV]

Samal, Areejit ; Rodrigues, Joao Matias ; Jost, Jürgen ; Martin, Olivier and Andreas Wagner: Genotype networks in metabolic reaction spaces

In: BMC systems biology, 4 (2010), 30

MIS-Preprint: 12/2010 [DOI]

Banerjee, Anirban and Jürgen Jost: Spectral characterization of network structures and dynamics

In: Dynamics on and of complex networks : applications to biology, computer science, and the social sciences / Niloy Ganguly... (eds.)

Boston, Mass. [u. a.] : Birkhäuser, 2009. - P. 117-132

(Modeling and simulation in science, engineering and technology)

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Scherrer, Klaus and Jürgen Jost: Response to commentaries on our paper 'Gene and genon concept : coding versus regulation'

In: Theory in biosciences, 128 (2009) 3, p. 171-177

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Banerjee, Anirban and Jürgen Jost: Graph spectra as a systematic tool in computational biology

In: Discrete applied mathematics, 157 (2009) 10, p. 2425-2431

[DOI] [ARXIV]

Banerjee, Anirban and Jürgen Jost: Spectral plot properties : towards a qualitative classification of networks

In: Networks and heterogeneous media, 3 (2008) 2, p. 395-411

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Banerjee, Anirban and Jürgen Jost: Laplacian spectrum and protein-protein interaction networks

[ARXIV]

Banerjee, Anirban and Jürgen Jost: Spectral plots and the representation and interpretation of biological data

In: Theory in biosciences, 126 (2007) 1, p. 15-21

[DOI]

Scherrer, Klaus and Jürgen Jost: Gene and genon concept : coding versus regulation

In: Theory in biosciences, 126 (2007) 2/3, p. 65-113

MIS-Preprint: 69/2007 [DOI]

Scherrer, Klaus and Jürgen Jost: The gene and the genon concept : a functional and information-theoretic analysis

In: Molecular systems biology, 3 (2007), 87

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Atay, Fatihcan M. and Jürgen Jost: On the emergence of complex systems on the basis of the coordination of complex behaviors of their elements

In: Complexity, 10 (2004) 1, p. 17-22

MIS-Preprint: 102/2003 [DOI]

Jost, Jürgen and Klaus Scherrer: A conceptual analysis of genetic coding and regulation in the light of modern molecular biology

Topics

Gene concept and information theory

metabolic networks

network analysis

4. Computing and information in biological systems

Norris, Vic ; Zemirline, Abdallah ; Amar, Patrick ; Audinot, Jean Nicolas ; Ballet, Pascal ; Ben-Jacob, Eshel ; Bernot, Gilles ; Beslon, Guillaume ; Cabin, Armelle ; Fanchon, Eric ; Giavitto, Jean-Louis ; Glade, Nicolas ; Greussay, Patrick ; Grondin, Yohann ; Foster, James A. ; Hutzler, Guillaume ; Jost, Jürgen ; Kepes, Francois ; Michel, Olivier ; Molina, Franck ; Signorini, Jacqueline ; Stano, Pasquale and Alain R. Thierry: Computing with bacterial constituents, cells and populations : from bioputing to bactoputing

In: Theory in biosciences, 130 (2011) 3, p. 211-228

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