Molecular Biophysics

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

Molecular Biophysics

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.

Author(s): Rudi Podgornik

320 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