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The secondary structure of ribonucleic acid (RNA) is more stable and accessible in the cell than its tertiary structure, making it essential for functional prediction. Although deep learning has shown promising results in this field,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-21 Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Hanqun Cao , Xingran Chen , Ge Wang , Lirong Wu , Jun Xia , Jiangbin Zheng , Stan Z. Li

The time sequences of the molecular dynamics simulation for the folding process of a protein is analyzed with the inherent structure landscape which focuses on configurational dynamics of the system. Time dependent energy and entropy for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-13 Naoko Nakagawa

Messenger RNA-based medicines hold immense potential, as evidenced by their rapid deployment as COVID-19 vaccines. However, worldwide distribution of mRNA molecules has been limited by their thermostability, which is fundamentally limited…

We identify two orthogonal sources of structural entropy in rattler-free granular systems - affine, involving structural changes that only deform the contact network, and topological, corresponding to different topologies of the contact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Shahar Amitai , Raphael Blumenfeld

We describe an algorithm for comparing two RNA secondary structures coded in the form of trees that introduces two new operations, called node fusion and edge fusion, besides the tree edit operations of deletion, insertion, and relabeling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-23 Julien Allali , Marie-France Sagot

A numerical parameter, known as a topological index, is employed to represent the molecular structure of a compound by considering its graph-theoretical properties. In the study of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-31 H. M. Nagesh , Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui

RNA/protein interactions play crucial roles in controlling gene expression. They are becoming important targets for pharmaceutical applications. Due to RNA flexibility and to the strength of electrostatic interactions, standard docking…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-23 Trang N. Do , Paolo Carloni , Gabriele Varani , Giovanni Bussi

From the crystal structure data and using the concept of equilbrium statistical mechanics we show how to calculate the thermodynamics of protein/DNA complexes. We apply the method to the TATA-box binding protein (TBP)/TATA sequence complex.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sudipta Samanta , J. Chakrabarti , Dhananjay Bhattacharyya

RNAs self-interact through hydrogen-bond base-pairing between nucleotides and fold into specific, stable structures that substantially govern their biochemical behaviour. Experimental characterization of these structures remains difficult,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Tristan Zaborniak , Juan Giraldo , Hausi Müller , Hosna Jabbari , Ulrike Stege

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the foundation of modern computer vision, achieving unprecedented accuracy across diverse image recognition tasks. While these networks excel on in-distribution data, they remain vulnerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Amirhossein Nazeri , Wael Hafez

The accurate prediction of protein-RNA binding affinity remains an unsolved problem in structural biology, limiting opportunities in understanding gene regulation and designing RNA-targeting therapeutics. A central obstacle is the…

We introduce an approach for the accurate calculation of thermal properties of classical nanoclusters. Based on a recently developed enhanced sampling technique, replica exchange metadynamics, the method yields the true free energy of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-07 Yingteng Zhai , Alessandro Laio , Erio Tosatti , Xin-Gao Gong

Entropy effects substantially modify the growth of self-assembled Ge nanostructures on vicinal Si (001) surfaces. As shown by variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, this leads to new types of one dimensional nanostructures that…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-19 Christian Grossauer , Vaclv Holy , Gunther Springholz

We analyze the thermodynamic cost of a logically reversible Brownian Turing machine operating in the first-passage time protocol based on the stochastic thermodynamics of resetting. In this framework, the thermodynamic cost of computation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-01 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Dimitry Golubev , Ferdinand Peper

The resolution of the P vs. NP problem, a cornerstone in computational theory, remains elusive despite extensive exploration through mathematical logic and algorithmic theory. This paper takes a novel approach by integrating information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Florian Neukart

No existing algorithm can start with arbitrary RNA sequences and return the precise, three-dimensional structures that ensures their biological function. This chapter outlines current algorithms for automated RNA structure prediction…

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For the canonical two-state model of transcription, we derive exact analytic expressions for the entropy production rate of transcription at steady state, and assess detailed balance breaking in transcription. Our analytics allow us to…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-27 James Holehouse

The fidelity-based smooth min-relative entropy is a distinguishability measure that has appeared in a variety of contexts in prior work on quantum information, including resource theories like thermodynamics and coherence. Here we provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

We introduce RNA-FrameFlow, the first generative model for 3D RNA backbone design. We build upon SE(3) flow matching for protein backbone generation and establish protocols for data preparation and evaluation to address unique challenges…

Given the importance of non-coding RNAs to cellular regulatory functions and rapid growth of RNA transcripts, computational prediction of RNA tertiary structure remains highly demanded yet significantly challenging. Even for a short RNA…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-29 Liang Ding , Xingran Xue , Sal LaMarca , Mohammad Mohebbi , Abdul Samad , Russell L. Malmberg , Liming Cai