Few well-written papers

Well-written papers

Some papers that I liked for their prose; of course, the content is great, too!

Deserno, M. Fluid Lipid Membranes – a Primer link

Overbeek, J. T. G.; Voorn, M. J. Phase Separation in Polyelectrolyte Solutions. Theory of Complex Coacervation. Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology 1957, 49 (S1), 7–26. link.

Luttinger, J. M. An Exactly Soluble Model of a Many‐Fermion System. Journal of Mathematical Physics 1963, 4 (9), 1154–1162. link.

Mandelbrot, B. How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension. Science 1967, 156 (3775), 636–638. link.

Bialek, W. Physical Limits to Sensation and Perception. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biophys. Chem. 1987, 16 (1), 455–478. link.

Binder, K. Theory of First-Order Phase Transitions. Rep. Prog. Phys. 1987, 50 (7), 783. link.

Thurston, W. P. On Proof and Progress in Mathematics. arXiv March 31, 1994. link.

Efron, B.; Halloran, E.; Holmes, S. Bootstrap Confidence Levels for Phylogenetic Trees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1996, 93 (23), 13429–13429. link.

Neidhardt, F. C. Bacterial Growth: Constant Obsession with dN/Dt. J Bacteriol 1999, 181 (24), 7405–7408. link.

Everaers, R.; Sukumaran, S. K.; Grest, G. S.; Svaneborg, C.; Sivasubramanian, A.; Kremer, K. Rheology and Microscopic Topology of Entangled Polymeric Liquids. Science 2004, 303 (5659), 823–826. link.

Marder, E. Grandmother Elephants. eLife 2013, 2, e01140. link.

Guven, J.; Manrique, G. Arresting the Collapse of a Catenary Arch. arXiv:1710.03433 [cond-mat, physics:physics] 2017.

França, T. F. A.; Monserrat, J. M. Writing Papers to Be Memorable, Even When They Are Not Really Read. BioEssays 2019, 41 (5), 1900035. link.

Galstyan, V.; Phillips, R. Allostery and Kinetic Proofreading. J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123 (51), 10990–11002. link.

Jia, X.; Lynch, A.; Huang, Y.; Danielson, M.; Lang’at, I.; Milder, A.; Ruby, A. E.; Wang, H.; Friedler, S. A.; Norquist, A. J.; Schrier, J. Anthropogenic Biases in Chemical Reaction Data Hinder Exploratory Inorganic Synthesis. Nature 2019, 573 (7773), 251–255. link.

Tanaka, H.; Tong, H.; Shi, R.; Russo, J. Revealing Key Structural Features Hidden in Liquids and Glasses. Nat Rev Phys 2019, 1 (5), 333–348. link.

Cohen, A. E.; Shi, Z. Do Cell Membranes Flow Like Honey or Jiggle Like Jello? BioEssays 2020, 42 (1), 1900142. link.

Fjelland, R. Why General Artificial Intelligence Will Not Be Realized. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 2020, 7 (1), 10. link.

Foley, S.; Deserno, M. Stabilizing Leaflet Asymmetry under Differential Stress in a Highly Coarse-Grained Lipid Membrane Model. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2020, 16 (11), 7195–7206. link.

Sing, C. E.; Perry, S. L. Recent Progress in the Science of Complex Coacervation. Soft Matter 2020, 16 (12), 2885–2914. link.

Deshpande, N. S.; Furbish, D. J.; Arratia, P. E.; Jerolmack, D. J. The Perpetual Fragility of Creeping Hillslopes. Nat Commun 2021, 12 (1), 3909. link.

van de Schoot, R.; Depaoli, S.; King, R.; Kramer, B.; Märtens, K.; Tadesse, M. G.; Vannucci, M.; Gelman, A.; Veen, D.; Willemsen, J.; Yau, C. Bayesian Statistics and Modelling. Nat Rev Methods Primers 2021, 1 (1), 1–26. link.

Braberg, H.; Echeverria, I.; Kaake, R. M.; Sali, A.; Krogan, N. J. From Systems to Structure — Using Genetic Data to Model Protein Structures. Nat Rev Genet 2022, 23 (6), 342–354. link.

Greener, Joe G., Shaun M. Kandathil, Lewis Moffat, and David T. Jones. “A Guide to Machine Learning for Biologists.” Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 23, no. 1 (January 2022): 40–55. link.

Cubuk, J.; Soranno, A. Macromolecular Crowding and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: A Polymer Physics Perspective. ChemSystemsChem 2022. link.

Ghosh, A.; Radhakrishnan, J.; Chaikin, P. M.; Levine, D.; Ghosh, S. Coupled Dynamical Phase Transitions in Driven Disk Packings. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2022, 129 (18), 188002. link. I liked how concise and informative the abstract is!

Bauer, M.; Bialek, W. Information Bottleneck in Molecular Sensing. PRX Life 2023, 1 (2), 023005. link.

Park, J. J.; Lu, Y.-K.; Jamison, A. O.; Tscherbul, T. V.; Ketterle, W. A Feshbach Resonance in Collisions between Triplet Ground-State Molecules. Nature 2023, 614 (7946), 54–58. link. Another precise and well-written abstract!

Powers, A. S.; Pham, V.; Burger, W. A. C.; Thompson, G.; Laloudakis, Y.; Sexton, P. M.; Paul, S. M.; Christopoulos, A.; Thal, D. M.; Felder, C. C.; Valant, C.; Dror, R. O. Structural Basis of Efficacy-Driven Ligand Selectivity at GPCRs. Nat Chem Biol 2023, 1–10. link.

Jo, M. H.; Meneses, P.; Yang, O.; Carcamo, C. C.; Pangeni, S.; Ha, T. Determination of Single-Molecule Loading Rate during Mechanotransduction in Cell Adhesion. Science 2024, 383 (6689), 1374–1379. link