The aim of this book is to show how supramolecular complexity of cell organization can dramatically alter the
functions of individual macromolecules within a cell. The emergence of new functions which appear as a consequence
of supramolecular complexity, is explained in terms of physical chemistry.
The book is interdisciplinary, at the border between cell biochemistry, physics and physical chemistry. This interdisciplinarity
does not result in the use of physical techniques but from the use of physical concepts to study biological problems.
In the domain of complexity studies, most works are purely theoretical or based on computer simulation. The present
book is partly theoretical, partly experimental and theory is always based on experimental results. Moreover, the
book encompasses in a unified manner the dynamic aspects of many different biological fields ranging from dynamics
to pattern emergence in a young embryo.
The volume puts emphasis on dynamic physical studies of biological events. It also develops, in a unified perspective,
this new interdisciplinary approach of various important problems of cell biology and chemistry, ranging from enzyme
dynamics to pattern formation during embryo development, thus paving the way to what may become a central issue
of future biology.