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Symmetry, shape, and order
Antonio Trovato, Trinh X. Hoang, Jayanth R. Banavar +1
Packing problems have been of great interest in many diverse contexts for many centuries. The optimal packing of identical objects has been often invoked to understand the nature o…
Structural motifs of biomolecules
Jayanth R. Banavar, Trinh X. Hoang, John H. Maddocks +4
Biomolecular structures are assemblies of emergent anisotropic building modules such as uniaxial helices or biaxial strands. We provide an approach to understanding a marginally co…
The maximum relative entropy principle
Jayanth Banavar, Amos Maritan
We show that the naive application of the maximum entropy principle can yield answers which depend on the level of description, i.e. the result is not invariant under coarse-graini…