TY - CHAP AU - Toshiyuki Yamaji AU - Yoshiki Yamaguchi AU - Motoaki Mitsuki AU - Shou Takashima AU - Satoshi Waguri AU - Yasuhiro Hashimoto AU - Kiyomitsu Nara ED - Catalin Alexandru Y1 - 2012-03-07 PY - 2012 T1 - 3D Modeling of a Natural Killer Receptor, Siglec-7: Critical Amino Acids for Glycan-Binding and Cell Death-Inducing Activity N2 - This book provides an open platform to establish and share knowledge developed by scholars, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, about various applications of the modeling and simulation in the design process of products, in various engineering fields. The book consists of 12 chapters arranged in two sections (3D Modeling and Virtual Prototyping), reflecting the multidimensionality of applications related to modeling and simulation. Some of the most recent modeling and simulation techniques, as well as some of the most accurate and sophisticated software in treating complex systems, are applied. All the original contributions in this book are jointed by the basic principle of a successful modeling and simulation process: as complex as necessary, and as simple as possible. The idea is to manipulate the simplifying assumptions in a way that reduces the complexity of the model (in order to make a real-time simulation), but without altering the precision of the results. BT - Modeling and Simulation in Engineering SP - Ch. 4 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/31157 DO - 10.5772/31157 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -