Biothermodynamics: Bridging Thermodynamics with Biochemical Engineering

Bioprocess Engineering – Bioprocess Analysis through Calorimetry and Biothermodynamics

eQuilibrator—the biochemical thermodynamics calculator

The laws of thermodynamics constrain the action of biochemical systems. However, thermodynamic data on biochemical compounds can be difficult to find and is cumbersome to perform calculations with manually. Even simple thermodynamic questions like 'how much Gibbs energy is released by ATP hydrolysis at pH 5?' are complicated excessively by the search for accurate data. To address this problem, ...

Thermodynamics in Food Engineering

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Spring 2007

Course Description Covers classical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Fundamental laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamics potentials and Legendre transforms, equations of state, chemical equilibrium, statistical mechanics, relationship between entropy and probabilities, classical gasses, liquids, and solids, pair correlation functions, Ising model, renormalization group theory, Brownian ...

Thermodynamics of Computational Copying in Biochemical Systems

Living cells use readout molecules to record the state of receptor proteins, similar to measurements or copies in typical computational devices. But is this analogy rigorous? Can cells be optimally efficient, and if not, why? We show that, as in computation, a canonical biochemical readout network generates correlations; extracting no work from these correlations sets a lower bound on dissipati...