8.592 Statistical Physics in Biology, Spring 2003

Kardar, Mehran; Mirny, Leonid A.

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Kardar, Mehran; Mirny, Leonid A.

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Statistical Physics in Biology

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Abstract

A survey of problems at the interface of statistical physics and modern biology: Bioinformatic methods for extracting information content of DNA; gene finding, sequence comparison, phylogenetic trees. Physical interactions responsible for structure of biopolymers; DNA double helix, secondary structure of RNA, elements of protein folding. Considerations of force, motion, and packaging; protein motors, membranes. Collective behavior of biological elements; cellular networks, neural networks, and evolution.

Date issued

2003-06

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34906

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

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8.592-Spring2003

local: 8.592

local: IMSCP-MD5-583c11ae85b0a813ae0218d327da8964

Keywords

sequence comparison, phylogenetic trees, biopolymers, protein folding, neural networks, statistical physics, phylogenetics, RNA, ribonucleic acid, force, motion, packaging, protein motors, optimization, partitioning, pattern recognition, collective behavior, molecular biology, deoxyribonucleic acid, genes, genetics, gene sequencing, double helix, membranes, biochemistry, genome, DNA, evolution, Statistical physics

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