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For most of the important processes in DNA metabolism, a protein has to reach a specific binding site on the DNA. The specific binding site may consist of just a few base pairs while the DNA is usually several millions of base pairs long.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-10 Debanjan Chowdhury

The elastic network (EN) is a prime model that describes the long-time dynamics of biomolecules. However, the use of harmonic potentials renders this model insufficient for studying large conformational changes of proteins (e.g. stretching…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 A. B. Poma , M. S. Li , P. E. Theodorakis

Tubular structure tracking is a crucial task in the fields of computer vision and medical image analysis. The minimal paths-based approaches have exhibited their strong ability in tracing tubular structures, by which a tubular structure can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Li Liu , Da Chen , Minglei Shu , Baosheng Li , Huazhong Shu , Michel Paques , Laurent D. Cohen

White matter structures composed of myelinated axons in the living human brain are primarily studied by diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI). These long-range projections are typically characterized in a two-step process: dMRI is used to estimate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-09 Matthew Cieslak , Tegan Brennan , Wendy Meiring , Lukas J. Volz , Clint Greene , Alexander Asturias , Subhash Suri , Scott T. Grafton

Deep learning has emerged as a powerful framework for analyzing biomolecular dynamics trajectories, enabling efficient representations that capture essential system dynamics and facilitate mechanistic studies. We propose a neural network…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Guanghong Zuo

Intracellular processes often rely on the timely encounter of mobile reaction partners, including intermittently motor-driven organelles. The underlying cytoskeletal network presents a complex landscape that both directs particle movement…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Lizzy Teryoshin , Mario Hidalgo-Soria , Elena F. Koslover

Protein complexes involved in DNA mismatch repair appear to diffuse along dsDNA in order to locate a hemimethylated incision site via a dissociative mechanism. Here, we study the probability that these complexes locate a given target site…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-12 Kyle Crocker , James London , Andrés Medina , Richard Fishel , Ralf Bundschuh

Most text retrievers generate \emph{one} query vector to retrieve relevant documents. Yet, the conditional distribution of relevant documents for the query may be multimodal, e.g., representing different interpretations of the query. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hung-Ting Chen , Xiang Liu , Shauli Ravfogel , Eunsol Choi

We propose a new method for the discrimination of sub-micron nuclear recoil tracks from an instrumental background in fine-grain nuclear emulsions used in the directional dark matter search. The proposed method uses a 3D Convolutional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-17 Artem Golovatiuk , Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Andrey Alexandrov , Giovanni De Lellis

Robotic search and rescue, exploration, and inspection require trajectory planning across a variety of domains. A popular approach to trajectory planning for these types of missions is ergodic search, which biases a trajectory to spend time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Dayi Dong , Albert Xu , Geordan Gutow , Howie Choset , Ian Abraham

We consider the lateral diffusion of a protein interacting with the curvature of the membrane. The interaction energy is minimized if the particle is at a membrane position with a certain curvature that agrees with the spontaneous curvature…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-10 Stefan M. Leitenberger , Ellen Reister-Gottfried , Udo Seifert

There has been an increasing recognition of the utility of models of the spatial dynamics of viral spread within tissues. Multicellular models, where cells are represented as discrete regions of space coupled to a virus density surface, are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-02 Thomas Williams , James McCaw , James Osborne

Variations of transport efficiency in structured environments between distinct individuals in actively self-propelled systems is both hard to study and poorly understood. Here, we study the transport of a non-tumbling {\ecoli} strain, an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-28 Pooja Chopra , David Quint , Ajay Gopinathan , Bin Liu

Accurate imaging of target shape is a crucial aspect of wideband FM biosonar in echolocating bats, for which we have developed new algorithms that provide a solution for the shape of complicated targets in the computational domain. We use…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Chen Ming , James A. Simmons

The precision of biochemical signaling is limited by randomness in the diffusive arrival of molecules at their targets. For proteins binding to the specific sites on the DNA and regulating transcription, the ability of the proteins to…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-01 Gasper Tkacik , William Bialek

Diffusion-based generative models employ stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and their equivalent probability flow ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to establish a smooth transformation between complex high-dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Defang Chen , Zhenyu Zhou , Can Wang , Siwei Lyu

The mechanisms by which a protein's 3D structure can be determined based on its amino acid sequence have long been one of the key mysteries of biophysics. Often simplistic models, such as those derived from geometric constraints, capture…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Nora Molkenthin , J. J. Güven , Steffen Mühle , Antonia S. J. S. Mey

In the present article the diffusion equation is used to model the spatio-temporal dynamics of a tumor, taking into account the heterogeneous of the medium. This approach makes it possible to take into account the complex geometric shape of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Maxim V. Polyakov , Valeria V. Ten

Differentiable neural architecture search (DARTS) has gained much success in discovering flexible and diverse cell types. To reduce the evaluation gap, the supernet is expected to have identical layers with the target network. However, even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Tao Huang , Shan You , Yibo Yang , Zhuozhuo Tu , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang

A variety of systems in physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology are modeled in terms of diffusing "searchers" looking for "targets." Examples range from gene regulation, to cell sensing, to human decision-making. A commonly studied…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Samantha Linn , Sean D Lawley