Theoretical perspectives on biological machines - Mauro L. Mugnai, Changbong Hyeon, Michael Hinczewski, and D. Thirumalaim, 2020

What I like about it: describes a comprehensive framework I can ‘trust’ (biological machines feels like an approachable category - but is that correct?), I like theoretical perspectives because I can manipulate them mentally

• what is a nucleic acid translocase?

• what is mesoscale - literally never think about that

• What are the core physical processes in biology? How did we decide on that?

• What are evolutionary constraints?

• Motors - walkers, twirlers

• What is a motor?

  • What types of movement can motors do?

  • In mechanical - how do we make motors do anything?

    • Alternating current -> push things with electric field

    • Converts energy into mechanical energy

I kind of want to understand the full question ‘what can physics tell us about biology’

• roughly, copying the info in the cell, doing things from that info

I mean, related, I love this book, even though it is not a paper

Biophysics - Searching for Principles, William Bialek, 2011

book.bionumbers.org

Rob Philips book on the cell

Uri Alon - Systems Medicine Physiological Circuits and the Dynamics of Disease