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Multiscale coupling of molecular dynamics and hydrodynamics: Application to DNA translocation through a nanopore

We present a multiscale approach to the modeling of polymer dynamics in the presence of a fluid solvent. The approach combines Langevin molecular dynamics ( MD) techniques with a mesoscopic lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for the solvent dynamics. A unique feature of the present approach is that…

HiCeekR: A Novel Shiny App for Hi-C Data Analysis

The High-throughput Chromosome Conformation Capture (Hi-C) technique combines the power of the Next Generation Sequencing technologies with chromosome conformation capture approach to study the 3D chromatin organization at the genome-wide scale. Although such a technique is quite recent, many tools…

Excised black-holes: the scattering problem in the time domain,

Viaggio nella turbolenza

Grazie alle simulazioni con i supercalcolatori, si cominciano a scoprire i meccanismi microscopici che governano il moto collettivo dei fluidi

X-chromosome-linked miR548am-5p is a key regulator of sex disparity in the susceptibility to mitochondria-mediated apoptosis

Sex dimorphism in cell response to stress has previously been investigated by different research groups. This dimorphism could be at least in part accounted for by sex-biased expression of regulatory elements such as microRNAs (miRs). In order to spot previously unknown miR expression differences…

Diffusive kinetic explicit schemes for nonlinear degenerate parabolic systems

We design numerical schemes for nonlinear degenerate parabolic systems with possibly dominant convection. These schemes are based on discrete BGK models where both characteristic velocities and the source-term depend singularly on the relaxation parameter. General stability conditions are derived,…

Mathematical and computational models in tumor immunology

Less Is Enough: Assessment of the Random Sampling Method for the Analysis of Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Data

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) aims at reconstructing the unknown neuroelectric activity in the brain from non-invasive measurements of the magnetic field induced by neural sources. The solution of this ill-posed, ill-conditioned inverse problem is usually dealt with using regularization techniques…

Rayleigh-Marangoni horizontal convection of low Prandtl number fluids

Tidal indicators in the spacetime of a rotating deformed mass

Tidal indicators are commonly associated with the electric and magnetic parts of the Riemann tensor (and its covariant derivatives) with respect to a given family of observers in a given spacetime. Recently, observer-dependent tidal effects have been extensively investigated with respect to a…