Introduction to Biophysics and Structural Biology

From quantum mechanics to drug discovery in one semester Molecular biophysics and structural biology are founded on physics, chemistry, and biology, yet few textbooks integrate these disciplines within a coherent single-semester framework.Introduction to Biophysics and Structural Biology provides a structured progression from foundational principles through to biological function and real-world applications including renewable energy and drug and vaccine design, equipping readers from diverse scientific backgrounds to work at the molecular level. Readers will find: The major experimental techniques for determining biological structures, including X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM and NMRAn explanation of artificial intelligence tools and their applicationsBasics of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and thermodynamicsMolecular dynamics simulationModern concepts of protein function and foldingThe dynamical picture of ligand binding, allostery, intrinsically disordered proteins and bi