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Nonlinear Excitations in Biomolecules pp 177–189Cite as

Proteins and the physics of complexity

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The theme of the workshop, “Non linear excitation in biomolecules”, gests more general questions: Are all complex systems nonlinear? What are excitations in complex systems? Can investigations of proteins lead to new insights into nonlinear excitations? In these notes, I will try to answer these questions partially by first sketching what proteins are and then describing some aspects of their structure, energy landscape, and dynamics. The notes will be brief, but enough references to books and papers with more details will be given.

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Frauenfelder, H. (1995). Proteins and the physics of complexity. In: Peyrard, M. (eds) Nonlinear Excitations in Biomolecules. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08994-1_13

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