"Johann M. Rohwer" wrote:
>> On 22 Aug 2000, at 8:09, Petr Kuzmic wrote:
>[...]
> > Somebody has asked previously in this thread why isn't MCA/MCT
> > more represented in textbooks. Could it be that people
> > (including myself, I must admit) are not ready to give up the
> > emphasis on "understanding" in the sense of "mechanisms" (i.e.,
> > "*what* is going on inside") ?
>> I strongly disagree that MCA requires us to give up an emphasis
> of understanding in the sense of mechanisms. It just depends at
> what level you see these mechanisms. [...]
> MCA has been applied at all these level in theory and
> experiment.
>From my remarks based on Athel's MCA FAQ page ("it has been found useful
to decrease the emphasis on mechanism"), you can guess that my knowledge
of the MCA literature is very scant. To my defense, I did attempt to
educate myself about the current state of MCA from something other than
primary literature (that is, from books and conference proceedings
instead of scattered journal articles). Unfortunately, those efforts
are not being very successful. For example, this monograph ...
Title: Technological and medical implications of metabolic
control analysis / edited by Athel Cornish-Bowden and Marâia
Luz Câardenas.
Database: WorldCat
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2000.
ISBN: 0792361881 (HB : alk. paper)
... isn't available on the campus where I happen to be geographically
located: University of Wisconsin - Madison, which is a giant institution
with "Enzyme Institute" and personalities who [like it or not] shaped
enzyme research in the U.S. for decades. In fact, according to the
WORLDCAT catalog, as of today (08/22/00) the book seems to be available
only in a few libraries worldwide
Libraries: COUNTRY: US STATE: WI LIBRARY: GZN (UNIV OF
WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE) COUNTRY: US STATE: CA LIBRARY: CUY
(UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY) COUNTRY: US STATE: DC
LIBRARY: DLC (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) COUNTRY: US STATE: FL
LIBRARY: FTU (UNIV OF CENT FLORIDA) COUNTRY: US STATE: IA
LIBRARY: IWA (IOWA STATE UNIV) COUNTRY: US STATE: IL
LIBRARY: IAL (LOYOLA UNIV OF CHICAGO) UIU (UNIV OF ILLINOIS)
COUNTRY: US STATE: MA LIBRARY: HMS (HARVARD UNIV MED SCH,
COUNTWAY MED LIBR) COUNTRY: US STATE: MD LIBRARY: AGL
(NATIONAL AGR LIBR) COUNTRY: US STATE: MS LIBRARY: MUM
(UNIV OF MISSISSIPPI) MRM (UNIV OF MISSISSIPPI, MED CTR)
COUNTRY: US STATE: PA LIBRARY: UPM (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV)
COUNTRY: US STATE: TX LIBRARY: TLS (TEXAS A&M INT UNIV) TXA
(TEXAS A&M UNIV) ILU (TEXAS TECH UNIV) TXU (UNIV OF TEXAS AT
EL PASO) COUNTRY: US STATE: VA LIBRARY: VOD (OLD DOMINION
UNIV) COUNTRY: CN STATE: ON LIBRARY: CAI (CISTI, CANADA
INST SCI TECH INFO) COUNTRY: ZZ STATE: EU LIBRARY: UIY
(NATIONAL & UNIV LIBR OF ICELAND, THE) OHX (OTTO
HARRASSOWITZ)
Any chance that at least some of this material would be available
online? I understand that Kluwer is a commercial entity, so obviously
they are in the business of *selling* this information. At the same
time, purchasing the title for my personal library through a bookseller,
just to get a feel for the developments in MCA, is not practical. These
kinds of books tend to be very expensive (hardly ever purchased by
individuals) and there are already too many other titles on my letter to
Santa Claus.
-- Petr
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