Includes bibliographical references and index.

Single-molecule fluorescent particle tracking / Ahmet Yidiz -- Single-molecule analysis of biomembranes / Thomas Schmidt and Gerhard J. Schutz -- Single-molecule imaging in live cells / Jie Xiao -- Fluorescence imaging at sub-diffraction-limit resolution with stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy / Graham T. Dempsey, Wenqin Wang, and Xiaowei Zhuang -- Single-molecule FRET: methods and biological applications / Ling Chin Whang ... [et al.] -- Single-molecule enzymology / Joseph J. Loparo and Antoine van Oijen -- Single-molecule studies of rotary molecular motors / Teuta Pilizota, Yoshiyuki Sowa, and Richard M. Berry -- Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in living cells / Thomas Weidemann and Petra Schwille -- Precise measurements of diffusion in solution by fluorescence correlations spectroscopy / Jorg Enderlein -- Single-molecule studies of nucleic acid interactions using nanopores / Meni Wanunu, Gautam V. Soni, and Amit Meller -- Nanopores: generation, engineering, and single-molecule applications / Stefan Howorka and Zuzanna Siwy -- Single-molecule manipulation using optical traps / Michael T. Woodside and Megan T. Valentine -- Magnetic tweezers for single-molecule experiments / I.D. Vilfan ... [et al.] -- Folding of proteins under mechanical force / Michael Schilerf and Matthias Rief -- Probing the energy landscape of protein-binding reactions by dynamic force spectroscopy / Andreas Ebner ... [et al.] -- Probing single membrane proteins by atomic force microscopy / S. Scheuring, K. Tanuj Sapra, and Daniel J. Muller -- High-speed atomic force microscopy / Toshio Ando and Takayuki Uchihashi -- Recognition imaging using atomic force microscopy / Andreas Ebner ... [et al.] -- Atomic force microscopy of protein - protein interactions / Xiaohui Zhang ... [et al.] -- A new approach to analysis of single-molecule force measurements / Evan Evans ... [et al.] -- Single-molecule recognition: extracting information from individual binding events and their correlation / Cheng Zhu ... [et al.].