The Art of Theoretical Biology [electronic resource] / edited by Franziska Matthäus, Sebastian Matthäus, Sarah Harris, Thomas Hillen.

The Deadly Beauty of Cancer -- Cellular Connections -- Annealing Party -- Cells on the Ferris Wheel -- The Magic Pants that Always Fit -- Racing Triangles -- Rising Dragons -- Henri in Wonderland -- Peak of the Iceberg -- Guiding Spiral -- The Hidden Beauty of Roots -- The Beauty of a Beast -- The Ghost -- Lymph Node Landscapes -- Breezing Drops -- Labyrinths: Exotic Patterns of Cortical Activity -- Mammalian Lipidomic Network -- One Step at a Time -- How a Tumor Gets its Spots -- Patchwork Patterns -- Cancer Warfare -- Collective Decision Making -- Cell Simulation in Blossom -- Semblance of Heterogeneity -- Can we Crack Cancer? -- Dance with Predators and Prey -- Knitting Proteins -- Nothing Stands Still in the Streams of Life -- Restless Mind Wandering -- Morphological Echoes -- Cancer as a Killer Tsunami -- Cells Are Watching You -- Roots or Flowers? Take a Guess... -- Spectral Forms and Cosmic Storms -- Antigenic Explosion -- Crop Circles of Cancer -- Scalp -- Coupled Invasion -- Lost in the Cells -- Becoming Important -- Community Matters -- Acidic Dance -- Flocking, Swirling and Spinning Stars in a Cell -- A Mosaic of Cancer and Liver Tissue -- Cell Firework -- Pulled in Line -- Convergence -- Arctic Breeze -- Extracellular Galaxies -- Oriental Landscape Painting by Predator Species -- Life is Lived on the Edge -- Cellular Swarms in Cellular Automata -- Bumps, Ridges, and no Flows in Vein -- Growing Orbs / Mingled Metabolism -- Out of the Comfort Zone -- Green Protein Interaction Wheel -- Vincent van Gogh's Autocatalysis -- Clonal Inferno -- What Lies Beneath (the Heartbeat) -- Tree of Life -- Tower of Life -- Clone Wars - The Immune System Awakens -- Modelled Cell -- CD196- -- Tumor Composition Depends on the Viewing Angle -- Poincaré's Homoclinic Horror -- E|A|S (Evolving Asteroid Starships) -- Interacting Spider Webs -- Heart Cells are aMAZEing -- Actin Spring -- Dynamical Diggers.

This beautifully crafted book collects images, which were created during the process of research in all fields of theoretical biology. Data analysis, numerical treatment of a model, or simulation results yield stunning images, which represent pieces of art just by themselves. The approach of the book is to present for each piece of visualization a lucid synopsis of the scientific background as well as an outline of the artistic vision. .