This
PDF covers the following topics related to Biophysics : Photon counting in vision, Noise isn’t negligible, No fine tuning, Efficient
representation, Poisson processes, Correlations, Electronic transition in large
molecules, Cooperativity, X–ray diffraction and biomolecular structure,
Dimensionality reduction, Maximum entropy, Measuring information transmission.
This PDF covers the following
topics related to Applied Biophysics : The Scope and Topics of Biophysics,
The Main Targets of Biophysics, Thermodynamics and Biosystems, Statistical
Physics of Biosystems, Mechanical and Chemical Equilibrium in Biosystems,
Biological Processes and Entropy, Molecular Structures: The Shape of
Molecules, Structure of Biosystems, The Building Blocks and Architecture of
Cells, etc.
This note covers the following
topics: Structure of DNA, Base-pair Interactions and DNA Melting, Mechanics
and Statistical Mechanics of DNA, Electrostatics of DNA and DNA -DNA
Interactions, DNA Collapse and DNA Mesophases, DNA Organization in Chromatin
and Viruses.
This introductory note on biophysics
introduces the principles of electrical excitability of cell membranes, which
form the basis of all information processing in the nervous system. Topics
covered includes: neurons and the brain, Electrical properties of cells,
Hodgkin-Huxley model of action potentials, Synapses and Perceptrons.
This course provides a survey of problems
at the interface of statistical physics and modern biology. Topics covered
includes: bioinformatic methods for extracting information content of DNA,
gene finding, sequence comparison, and phylogenetic trees, physical
interactions responsible for structure of biopolymers, DNA double helix,
secondary structure of RNA, and elements of protein folding, considerations of
force, motion, and packaging, protein motors and membranes.
Author(s): Prof.
Mehran Kardar and Prof. Leonid Mirny