3 papers
physics.bio-ph2025
Randomness with constraints: constructing minimal models for high-dimensional biology
Ilya Nemenman, Pankaj Mehta
Biologists and physicists have a rich tradition of modeling living systems with simple models composed of a few interacting components. Despite the remarkable success of this appro…
physics.bio-ph2025
What do the fundamental constants of physics tell us about life?
Pankaj Mehta, Jane Kondev
In the 1970s, the renowned physicist Victor Weisskopf famously developed a research program to qualitatively explain properties of matter in terms of the fundamental constants of p…
physics.bio-ph2025
Hopfield Networks as Models of Emergent Function in Biology
Maria Yampolskaya, Pankaj Mehta
Hopfield models, originally developed to study memory retrieval in neural networks, have become versatile tools for modeling diverse biological systems in which function emerges fr…