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20172025
most citedSingle-molecule techniques in biophysics: a review of the progress in methods and applications

204 citations · 249 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.bio-ph2025

Invention, Innovation, and Commercialisation in British Biophysics

Jack Shepherd, Mark Leake

British biophysics has a tradition of scientific invention and innovation, resulting in new technologies transforming biological insight, such as rapid DNA sequencing, super-resolu…

physics.bio-ph2024

Correlating fluorescence microscopy, optical and magnetic tweezers to study single chiral biopolymers such as DNA

Jack W Shepherd, Sebastien Guilbaud, Zhaokun Zhou +7

Biopolymer topology is critical for determining interactions inside cell environments, exemplified by DNA where its response to mechanical perturbation is as important as biochemic…

q-bio.BM2021★ 27 cited

RecA and RecB: probing complexes of DNA repair proteins with mitomycin C in live Escherichia coli with single-molecule sensitivity

Alex L. Payne-Dwyer, Aisha H. Syeda, Jack W. Shepherd +2

The RecA protein and RecBCD complex are key bacterial components for the maintenance and repair of DNA, RecBCD a helicase-nuclease that uses homologous recombination to resolve dou…

q-bio.BM2021

The End Restraint Method for Mechanically Perturbing Nucleic Acids in silico

Jack W Shepherd, Mark C Leake

Far from being a passive information store, the genome is a mechanically dynamic and diverse system in which torsion and tension fluctuate and combine to determine structure and he…

q-bio.CB2021

Investigating molecular crowding during cell division in budding yeast with FRET

Sarah Lecinski, Jack W Shepherd, Lewis Frame +3

Cell division, aging, and stress recovery triggers spatial reorganization of cellular components in the cytoplasm, including membrane bound organelles, with molecular changes in th…

q-bio.BM2021

PySTACHIO: Python Single-molecule TrAcking stoiCHiometry Intensity and simulatiOn, a flexible, extensible, beginner-friendly and optimized program for analysis of single-molecule microscopy

Jack W Shepherd, Ed J Higgins, Adam J M Wollman +1

As camera pixel arrays have grown larger and faster, and optical microscopy techniques ever more refined, there has been an explosion in the quantity of data acquired during routin…