From Chemical to Biological Organization

I General Concepts.- From Chemical to Biological Organization: A Snapshot.- Pattern Formation: Thermodynamics or Kinetics?.- Spatiotemporal Organization in Biological and Chemical Systems: Historical Review.- Velocity Correlations and Irreversibility: A Molecular Dynamics Approach.- Nonlinear Dynamics, Self-Organization and the Symbolic Representation of Complexity.- Spectral Kinetics and the Efficiency of (Bio) Chemical Reactions.- II Chemical Organization.- Distinction Between Amplified Noise and Deterministic Chaos by the Correlation Dimension.- Exotic Chemical Reactions with Cu(II) Catalyst.- Bifurcation, Periodicity and Chaos by Thermal Effects in Heterogeneous Catalysis.- Spatial Patterns in (Bio)Chemical Reactions.- Experimental Study of the Target Patterns of the BZ Reaction Using Digital Picture Analysis.- Dispersion Curves and Pulse Wave Propagation in Excitable Systems.- Chemical Structures and Convection.- The Path to Hydrodynamic Instability During Reactions at Liquid Interfaces: Comparison of Experimental Image Analysis Results and Simulations.- Cellular Automata Simulating the Evolution of Structure Through the Synchronization of Oscillators.- III Biochemical Organization.- Potential Functions and Molecular Evolution.- Stochastic and Chaotic Processes in Biochemical Systems.- Protein Complexity.- Chemical Turnover and the Rate of Heat Production in Complex Reaction Systems.- Pattern Formation by Coupled Oscillations: The Pigmentation Patterns on the Shells of Molluscs.- Nonlinear Polymerization of Fibrinogen.- IV Cellular and Intercellular Organization.- Dynamic Phenomena in Molecular and Cellular Biology.- Thermodynamics of Energy Conversion in the Cell.- Cell Lineage and Segmentation in Development.- Models of Cytoplasmic Motion.- Developmental Controlof a Biological Rhythm: The Onset of Cyclic AMP Oscillations in Dictyostelium Cells.- Periodic Cell Communication in Dictyostelium discoideum.- V From Complex Cellular Networks to the Brain.- Memory and Paralysis Phenomena in the Immune Response: Interpretation in Terms of Multiple Steady State Transitions.- Spatiotemporal Patterns of Block in an Ionic Model of Cardiac Purkinje Fibre.- Perturbations of Next-Period Functions: Applications to Circadian Rhythms.- Brain Development and Self-Organization.- Do Coherent Patterns of the Strange Attractor EEG Reflect Deterministic Sensory-Cognitive States of the Brain?.- The Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease in the Hierarchy of Chaotic Attractors.- VI Ecological, Epidemiological and Economical Organization.- Ecosystems Under Varying Ambient Conditions.- Periodic and Chaotic Dynamics in Childhood Infections.- Analysis of Life Processes and Economic Systems by Methods of Thermodynamics.- Index of Contributors.