Learn the characteristic sizes (nanometers to micrometers), timescales (microseconds to hours), and energies (multiples of kBtk sub cap B t ) of the cellular world.
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Using the Boltzmann distribution to calculate the probability of a transcription factor binding to a specific DNA sequence. 4. Biological Rates and Polymerization timescales (microseconds to hours)
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