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20192026
most citedGambling Carnot Engine

7 citations · 8 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

q-bio.SC2026

Amplifying gene expression sensitivity by surface condensation on DNA

Tarek Tohme, Henry Alston, Jacqueline Janssen +2

Condensation of proteins on DNA is a central aspect of genome organisation, and has been proposed as a mechanism of gene regulation in eukaryotes, notably by mediating the action o…

cs.DS2026

Faster network motif discovery by counting isomorphic subtrees

Tarek Tohme, Joshua A. Grochow

We develop a new algorithm for counting the number of subgraphs of a network isomorphic to a given query graph (#SubgraphIsomorphism), motivated by network motif search. High-degre…

q-bio.MN2025

Fast decisions with biophysically constrained gene promoter architectures

Tarek Tohme, Massimo Vergassola, Thierry Mora +1

Cells integrate signals and make decisions about their future state in short amounts of time. A lot of theoretical effort has gone into asking how to best design gene regulatory ci…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024★ 7 cited

Gambling Carnot Engine

Tarek Tohme, Valentina Bedoya, Costantino di Bello +3

We propose a theoretical model for a colloidal heat engine driven by a feedback protocol that is able to fully convert the net heat absorbed by the hot bath into extracted work. Th…

physics.bio-ph2024★ 1 cited

A brief tutorial on information theory

Tarek Tohme, William Bialek

At the 2023 Les Houches Summer School on Theoretical Biological Physics, several students asked for some background on information theory, and so we added a tutorial to the schedul…

physics.soc-ph2019

Buildings as Species: Competition and Scaling Rules in Cities

Tarek Tohme, Martin Grant, Sara Najem

We look at buildings' competition over space in cities through the lens of ecology. Adopting the convex hull of the building's footprint perimeter as a definition of species yields…