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Icosahedral geometry of viruses explained
by Mr Liver, Nov 06, 2009 12:39PM
I've posted before a few times on the math and physics used to understand viruses and how this has led to collaboration between these fields and that of medical researchers. It is no coincidence that half of all viruses are icosahedral in shape. It is a very efficient shape requiring so little energy that it cannot be detected. Only through math do we know the actual energy required by an icosahedral-shaped virus to survive. This article provides some basics about the process of capsid assembly (the outer protein shell of the virus that protects the nucleic acid inside) and how the virus can be 'quasi-equivalent' .
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC524855/pdf/pnas-0406935101.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC524855/pdf/pnas-0406935101.pdf
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