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    Dissipative dynamics and the statistics of energy states of a Hookean model for protein folding
    (Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 2000-07) Tüzel, Erkan; Erzan, Ayşe
    A generic model of a random polypeptide chain, with discrete torsional degrees of freedom and Hookean spring connecting pails or hydrophobic residues, reproduces the energy probability distribution of real proteins over a very large range of energies. We show that this system with harmonic interactions, under dissipative dynamics driven by random noise, leads to a distribution of energy states obeying a modified one-dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and giving rise Lo the so-called Wigner distribution. A tunably fine- or coarse-grained sampling of the energy landscape yields a family of distributions for the energies and energy spacings.
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    Testing a hypothesis for the evolution of sex
    (World Scientific Publishing Company, 2000-07-11) Örçal, Bora; Tüzel, Erkan; Sevim, Volkan; Jan, Naeem; Erzan, Ayşe
    An asexual set of primitive bacteria is simulated with a lit-string Penna model with a Fermi function for survival. A recent hypothesis by Jan, Stauffer, and Moseley on the evolution of sex from asexual cells as a strategy for trying to escape the effects of deleterious mutations is checked. This strategy is found to provide a successful scenario for the evolution of a stable macroscopic sexual population.