Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Viral Evolution.

This paper uses methods drawn from physics to study the life cycle of viruses. The paper analyzes a model of viral infection and evolution using the "grand canonical ensemble" and formalisms from statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Using this approach we enumerate all possible geneti...

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Main Authors: Barbara A Jones, Justin Lessler, Simone Bianco, James H Kaufman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4589373?pdf=render