Biophysics Searching for Principles

Lecture Note on Biophysics

This note describes the following topics: modern biology, Separation techniques and physico chemical techniques, Experimental techniques, Structures of biological molecules, Biomechanics and neuro biophysics.

Author(s): Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology

94 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

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