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Statistical Physics in Biology

Subjects: Biology · Physics · Statistics

Art: The drawing seems to be signed 'Laplante' in the…, Andreas Cunaeus discovering the Leyden jar, before 1886 · Public domain

Instructors
Prof. Mehran Kardar, Prof. Leonid Mirny
Term
Spring 2011
Level
Graduate
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1 lecture note · 32 other files · 35 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.592J Statistical Physics in Biology, Spring 2011, Prof. Mehran Kardar, Prof. Leonid Mirny — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

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Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.

This course’s cited books, in our reading lists: Molecular Biology of the Cell · Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids · Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton · Physical Biology of the Cell

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Lecture Notes

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Introduction

Evolving Populations

Fixation

Significance of Alignments

Ionic Interactions

Polymer Theory 1

Polymer Theory 2

DNA (Melting)

RNA (Secondary Structure)

Protein-DNA Interactions 2

Microtubules

Molecular Motors

Introduction to Networks

Dynamics on Networks 1

Dynamics on Networks 2

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