Protein Folding, Evolution and Design: Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" : Course Cxlv : Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 11-21 July 2000

This text presents the results of broad interdisciplinary effort to study proteins in physical and evolutionary prospectives. Among the authors are physicists, chemists, crystallographers, and evolutionary biologists. Experimental and theoretical developments "from molecules to cells" are presented providing a broad picture of modern biophysical chemistry.