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Any particularly good books you can recommend that you came across on your Amazon binge?

7373737373 8y ago
I can recommend Engines of Creation: 1.0 summary: http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/3.052/3.052CourseReader/3_EnginesofCreation.pdf http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/3.052/3.052CourseReader/3_Engi... 1.0: http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html 2.0: https://web.archive.org/web/20140810022659/http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/physics/nanotech/EnginesofCreation2_8803267.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20140810022659/http://www1.appst...
- Symmetry 8y ago
  I highly recommend Engines 2.0 rather than the original. Drexler's conception of nanobots before he had done the heavy lifting of working out the designs that showed up in Nanosystems probably aren't very practical compared to more factory assembly line structures. Thermal motion is just so much easier to deal with in an enclosed tube than at the end of a wobbly arm.
jfarlow 8y ago
Machinery of Life is a fantastic introduction to an intuition for what proteins and the mechanics of their scale. https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/0387849246 https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...
sytelus 8y ago
Essential Cell Biology is pretty good one to start (Ch 2-7): https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cell-Biology-Bruce-Alberts/dp/0815344546 https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cell-Biology-Bruce-Alberts/.... There are numerous books like Machinery of Life that don't go in to enough details. Most books specifically on subject of protein structure, dynamics and folding are advanced textbooks like Introduction to Protein Structure by Branden and Tooze. My experience has been that following all the details is very difficult without taking formal classes in these subjects and there is an immense amount of details that is probably not relevant to our purpose of computational prediction. Hope is that someone soon writes Protein Folding for Programmers :).

I can recommend Engines of Creation: 1.0 summary: http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/3.052/3.052CourseReader/3_EnginesofCreation.pdf http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/3.052/3.052CourseReader/3_Engi... 1.0: http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html 2.0: https://web.archive.org/web/20140810022659/http://www1.appstate.edu/dept/physics/nanotech/EnginesofCreation2_8803267.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20140810022659/http://www1.appst...

Symmetry 8y ago
I highly recommend Engines 2.0 rather than the original. Drexler's conception of nanobots before he had done the heavy lifting of working out the designs that showed up in Nanosystems probably aren't very practical compared to more factory assembly line structures. Thermal motion is just so much easier to deal with in an enclosed tube than at the end of a wobbly arm.

jfarlow 8y ago

Machinery of Life is a fantastic introduction to an intuition for what proteins and the mechanics of their scale. https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/0387849246 https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...

sytelus 8y ago

Essential Cell Biology is pretty good one to start (Ch 2-7): https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cell-Biology-Bruce-Alberts/dp/0815344546 https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cell-Biology-Bruce-Alberts/.... There are numerous books like Machinery of Life that don't go in to enough details. Most books specifically on subject of protein structure, dynamics and folding are advanced textbooks like Introduction to Protein Structure by Branden and Tooze. My experience has been that following all the details is very difficult without taking formal classes in these subjects and there is an immense amount of details that is probably not relevant to our purpose of computational prediction. Hope is that someone soon writes Protein Folding for Programmers :).