Theoretical Biophysics by Ulrich Schwarz

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

Theoretical Biophysics by Ulrich Schwarz

This PDF covers the following topics related to Biophysics : Review of some basic physics, Biomolecular interactions and dynamics, Electrostatistics and genome packing, Binding and assembly, Physics of membranes and red blood cells, Physics of polymers, Molecular motors, Diffusion, Reaction kinetics.

Author(s): Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz, Heidelberg University, Institute for Theoretical Physics

237 Pages

Introduction to biophysics

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.

Author(s): Bert Kappen

97 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

NA Pages