Molecular Biophysics

Applied Biophysics

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.

Author(s): Paata J. Kervalishvili

281 Pages

Biophysics Searching for Principles

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.

Author(s): William Bialek

310 Pages

Systems Biology

This note covers the following topics: Michaelis-Menten kinetics, equilibrium binding, Lambda phage, multistability, synthetic genetic switches, stability analysis, introduction to E.coli chemotaxis, Fine-tuned versus Robust chemotaxis models, wrapping up chemotaxis, genetic oscillators,  stochastic chemical kinetics, cell systems biology-'the importance of diffusion and gradients for cellular regulation', Quorum sensing, Drosophila development.

Author(s): Prof. Alexander van Oudenaarden

NA Pages

Statistical Physics in Biology

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

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