Index

A

Abbe limit, 86, 98100

ABEL trapping, 223224

Ab initio MD simulations, 287289

Absorbance, 55

Acousto-optic deflector (AOD), 90, 186188

Acousto-optic modulator, 92

Acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF), 69

Adaptive optics (AO), 120

Additive manufacturing, 257

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), 17, 31, 3739

Advection-diffusion equation, 319

AFM, see Atomic force microscopy

Agarose, 215

Airy ring, 98

a/LCI, see Angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry

Alcohol dehydrogenase, 288

Alkylation, 235

O6-Alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT), 78

Allostery, 298

α-helix, 24

AMBER, see Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement

Amine, 234

Amino acids, 2224

Amyloid peptides, 163, 213

Analytical ultracentrifugation, 180

Angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry (a/LCI), 125

Animal locomotion, 337338

Anisotropy, 5859

Anomalous diffusion, 118, 319320

Antibodies, see Immunoglobulin

Anti-DIG, 236

Antigen, 236

Antimatter, 271

AO, see Adaptive optics

AOD, see Acousto-optic deflector

AOTF, see Acousto-optic tunable filter

APD, see Avalanche photodiode

Apoptosis, see Programmed cell death

Aptamers, 237

Arabidopsis, 146, 239

Archaea, 13

Arc lamp, 68

Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement (AMBER), 295296

Astigmatism imaging, 109

Atomic force acoustic microscopy, see Ultrasonic force microscopy

Atomic force microscopy (AFM), 290

cut-and-paste, 209210

force spectroscopy, 208209

imaging, 202208, 213214

ATP, see Adenosine triphosphate

Auger electron spectroscopy, see X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Autocorrelation function, 117

Auto fluorescence, 78

Avalanche photodiode (APD), 63

Avidin, see Streptavidin

Axial spatial resolution, 87

Azide–alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition, see Click chemistry

B

Back focal plane detection (BFP detection), 188189

Bacteria, 13

Bacteriophages, 238

Baker’s yeast, see Saccharomyces

Barabási–Albert model, 351

Barium meal, 271

Base pairs, 2729, 3132

Basic alignment search tool (BLAST), 335

Bayes theorem, 321322

Beeman algorithm, 281

Beer–Lambert law, 5455, 157

Bending free energy, 341

Bessel beam, 87

Bessel function, 98

Bessel trap, 190

β-barrel, 24

β-sheet, 24

BFP detection, see Back focal plane detection

Bifunctional fluorescence complementation (BiFC), 103104, 245

Bilayers, 17, 341

Binding-activated localization microscopy, 105

Binomial nomenclature, 14

Bioarcheology, 158

Biobattery, 221, 361

Biocompatible materials, 363

Biocomputation, 363

Bioconjugation, 233237

Bioelectronics, 256, 363

Biofilms, 14, 376

Biofuels, 361362

Bioinformatics, 335337

Biological circuits, 355

Biological transistor, 363364

Biomarkers, 7378, 367

Biomimetic materials, 226, 337, 363

Bio nanotechnology, 354

Bioplastics, 361

Bioremediation, 361

Biosensors, see Lab-on-a-chip

Biotin, 191, 234

Biotribology, 337

Biot–Savart law, 164165

Biplane imaging, 108

Birefringence, 57, 66, 124

Bjerrum length, 283

BLAST, see Basic alignment search tool

Blinking, see Photo blinking

Blinking assisted localization microscopy, 105

Blood vessels, 370

BLS, see Brillouin scattering

Bohr radius, 76

Boltzmann factor, 22, 161

Bond order, 283

Bone, 370

Born–Oppenheimer approximation, 281

Bosons, 288

Bragg diffraction, 147, 186187

Bragg peak frequency, 154

Bragg’s law, 147

Bremsstrahlung radiation, 150

Brenner potential, 289

Bright-field, 6465, 240

Brillouin doublet, 196

Brillouin microscopy, 134

Brillouin scattering, 134, 196

Brillouin spectroscopy, 134

Broadband laser, 69

Brownian diffusion, 47, 117, 319320

Brownian dynamics, see Langevin dynamics

Budding yeast, see Saccharomyces

Butanol, 361

Butterfly wings, 253

C

Cadmium selenide, 75

Cadmium telluride, 75

Caenorhabditis, see Flatworm

cAMP, see Cyclic adenosine monophosphate

Cancer, 239, 271, 273

Carbohydrates, see Sugars

Carbon nanotubes, 132, 211

Carboxyl, 234

Carboxysomes, 17

Cartilage, 338

CAT, see Computer-assisted tomography

Cauchy equation, 80

Caveolae, 84

CCD, see Charge-coupled device

CD, see Circular dichroism

Cell

membranes, 15, 1718, 2122, 66, 210

signaling, 351

squeezing, 242

walls, 1718

Cellular biophysics, 348350

Cellular differentiation, 40

Central dogma of molecular biology, 3235

Centrifugation, 180181

Charge-coupled device (CCD), 6364

CHARMM, see Chemistry at HARvard Macromolecular Mechanics

Chaste, 338

Chemical fixation, 141142

Chemical imaging, see Hyperspectral imaging

Chemical potential, 250

Chemical shift, 161

Chemistry at HARvard Macromolecular Mechanics (CHARMM), 295296

Chemoattractants, 349

Chemorepellants, 349

Chemotaxis, 68, 299300, 324, 349

Chinese hamster ovary cells, see Immortal cells

Chirality, 23

Chlamydomonas, 239

Chloroplasts, 17, 373

Chromatography, 180

Chung–Kennedy filter, 336337

Cilia, 341

Circular dichroism (CD), 5758

Clausius–Mossotti factor, 223

CLEM, see Correlative light and electron microscopy

Click chemistry, 74, 236

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR), 244

CMOS, see Complementary MOS

Coarse-grained simulations, 294295

Codons, 362

Coherence beating, 373

Coherence length, 125

Coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering (CARS), 133

Coherent stokes Raman scattering (CSRS), 133

Coherent x-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI), 156

Collagen, 66, 158

Colocalization analysis, 331333

Colorimetry, 55

Comparative biomechanics, 337

Complementary MOS (CMOS), 64

Computer-assisted tomography (CAT), 268, 270271

Computerized tomography (CT), 268

Condenser, 61, 6468, 140, 153, 156, 189

Confocal microscopy, 8689

Confocal theta microscopy, 87

Confocal volume, 86

Conformational spreading, 299

Connective tissue, 43, 210, 225, 239

Connectome, 240

Consciousness, 374

Contact mechanics, 337

Contact mode, 206208

Contrast reagent, 143, 270

Convolution modelling, 333334

Coomassie Blue, 216

Copy numbers, 332, 335

Corner frequency, 190

Correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM), 146147

Coulomb forces, 43, 170, 282283, 373

Counter ions, 293

Covalent bonds, 20

CRISPR, see Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat

Critical angle, 80

Cryo-EM, 145146

Cryoembedding, 142

Cryofixation, 142

Cryosubstitution, 142

Cryptochrome, 374

Crystallization, 249252

robots, 250

window, 250

Crystal resonator, 224

CSRS, see Coherent stokes Raman scattering

CXDI, see Coherent x-ray diffraction imaging

Cyanobacteria, 17

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate, 349

Cyclodextrin, 220

Cyclotron, 151

Cysteine scanning mutagenesis, 243

Cytoplasm, 22, 9192

Cytoskeleton, 17, 66

D

DAB, see Diaminobenzidine

Danio, see Zebrafish

Dark field microscopy, 65

Dark noise, 100

Dark population, 103

Dark states, 73, 76

Death sensors, 123

De Broglie relation, 141, 183

Debye–Hückel approximation, 293

Debye length, 283

Debye–Scherrer method, 154

Deconvolution, 119

Defocusing microscopy, 64

Deformable mirrors, 120

Degrons, 245, 362

Delayed-coincidence methods, 272

Deletion mutants, 43, 243

Dementia, 163

Dendritic fibers, 174

Density gradient, 181

Deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA), 2730

absorbance, 54

curtains, 182183

ligase, 241

mechanics, 194

origami, 357361

sequencing, 368

Depth of field, 62

Depth of focus, 62

Depth of penetration, 81

Deuterium, 162

Dialysis, see Osmosis

Diaminobenzidine (DAB), 145

DIC, see Differential interference contrast microscopy

Dichroic mirrors, 6970

Dictyostelium, 239, 349

Dielectric heating, see Radio frequency heating

Dielectric spectroscopy, see Electrical impedance spectroscopy

Differential interference contrast microscopy (DIC), 6667

Differential scanning calorimetry, 268

Diffraction before destruction, 152

Diffusion, 4647

equation, 318319

limited, 310

-to-capture, 319

DIG, see Digoxigenin

Digital holographic microscopy, 68

Digitalis, 236

Digital micromirror array, 188

Digoxigenin (DIG), 236

Dihedrals, 283

Dipole moment, 162, 184, 200201, 206, 222, 224

Dipole orientation factor, 113

Directed diffusion, 319

Disequilibrium, 312

DLS, see Dynamic light scattering

DNA, see Deoxyribose nucleic acid

DNA sequencing, 368

Doob–Gillespie algorithm, see Gillespie algorithm

Doppler shift, 129, 272

DPI, see Dual polarization interferometry

Drosophila, 240

Drug delivery, 369

Dual polarization interferometry (DPI), 5960

Duplex, 29, 360

Dynamic light scattering (DLS), 126, 128129

E

ECM, see Extracellular matrix

E. coli, see Escherichia coli

Ecomechanics, 376377

Edge-preserving filters, 336337

EDL, see Electrical double layer

Effective potentials, see Pseudopotentials

Eigenfaces, 146

Eigenimages, 146, 328

EIS, see Electrical impedance spectroscopy

Elastic scattering, 126131

Electrical double layer (EDL), 43, 130

Electrical impedance spectroscopy, 268

Electrocardiography, 268

Electroencephalography, 268

Electromyography, 272

Electron diffraction, 147149

Electron gun, 140

Electron microscopy (EM), 140149, 358

Electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD), 6364

Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), 168; see also Electron spin resonance

Electron spectroscopy, see X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Electron spin resonance (ESR), 159

Electron tomography (ET), 144

Electronystagmography, 272

Electrophoretic light scattering, 129130

Electrophoretic mobility, 129

Electrophysiology, 217219

Electroporation, 242

Electrorotation, 222223

Elemental analysis, 144

Ellipticity, 57

EM, see Electron microscopy

Embedded-atom method, 289

EMCCD, see Electron multiplying CCD

Emergent structures, 14

Emission filters, 6970

Empirical potentials, 282

Enantiomers, 23

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER), 16, 19

Endoscopy, 273

Entropic springs, 16, 226, 302308

Environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM), 145

Enzymes, 25

Epifluorescence, 7879

Epitaxy, 256

Epithelial cervical cells, see Immortal cells

Epitope, 236

EPS, see Extracellular polymeric substances

Equipartition theorem, 44, 190, 201, 205, 223

ER, see Endoplasmic reticulum

Ergodic hypothesis, 177178

Erithacus, 374

Erosion, 327

Escherichia coli, 14, 312, 352

ESEM, see Environmental scanning electron microscope

ESR, see Electron spin resonance

ET, see Electron tomography

Etalon, see Fabry–Pérot interferometer

Ethidium bromide, 216

Eukaryotes, 13, 16

European robin, see Erithacus

Evanescent field, 193

Evanescent wave equation, 81

Evaporative deposition, 256

Everhart–Thornley detector, 144

Evolution, 40

Excitation filters, 69

Excitation volume, 86, 123

Excitons, 75, 373

Excluded volume, 16, 308309

Explicit solvent, 290291

Extended x-ray absorption fine structure, 157

Extracellular matrix (ECM), 1314, 66

Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), 376

F

Fab regions, 235236

Fabry–Pérot interferometer, 6970, 134

FACS, see Fluorescence-assisted cell sorting

Faraday cage, 144

Fatty acids, 2022

Fc regions, 235236

FCS, see Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

FEA, see Finite element analysis

Feedback, 177, 188, 191, 203, 206209, 353

Fermions, 288

Ferromagnetic materials, 198

FIB, see Focused ion beam

Fibroblasts, 210, 239

Field flow fractionation, 181

Finesse coefficient, 70

Finite element analysis, 226, 270

Finnis–Sinclair model, see Embedded-atom method

FISH, see Fluorescence in situ hybridization

Fixed charge explicit solvent model, 291

FlAsH, see Fluorescein arsenical helix

Flatworm, 8789, 119, 240

Flavins, 78, 146, 374

FLIM, see Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy

FLIP, see Fluorescence loss in photobleaching

Flocking, 377

Flory’s mean field theory, 309

Flow cytometry, see Fluorescence-assisted cell sorting

Fluctuation–dissipation theorem, 12

Fluid force microscopy, 210

Fluidic circuits, 260

Fluid mosaic model, see Singer–Nicholson model

Fluid reservoirs, 260

Fluorescein arsenical helix (FlAsH), 74, 146

Fluorescence-assisted cell sorting (FACS), 5657

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), 116119

Fluorescence imaging with one nanometer accuracy, 100

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), 7374, 236, 262

Fluorescence intermittency, see Photoblinking

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), 8990

Fluorescence loss in photobleaching (FLIP), 87

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP), 87, 312313

Fluorescent proteins, 24, 73, 7677, 101, 237, 245246

Fluorescent speckle microscopy, 103

Fluorimetry, 5556

Fluorophore, 55

Foam physics, 339

Focal drift, 264

Focused ion beam, 219, 254

Fokker–Planck equation, see Smoluchowski equation

Force clamp, 188, 290

Förster radius, 112

Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), 83, 90, 111116, 195, 351

Fourier transform, 109, 120121, 166167, 199, 283, 326

Fourier transforms infrared spectrometer, 5253

4Pi microscopy, 105

Franck–Condon principle, 56

FRAP, see Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching

Free-electron lasers, 168; see also X-ray free-electron laser

Free-electron maser, 168

Free energy, 12

Free induction decay, 167

Freely jointed chain, 302303

Freely rotating chain, 303

Free radical quencher, 101

Free spectral range, 70

Freeze-fracture, 142

Frequency doubling, 124

Fresnel zone plates, 156

FRET, see Förster resonance energy transfer

Fröhlich condensate, 169, 373

Fruit fly, see Drosophila

FT, see Fourier transform

FTIR, see Fourier transform infrared spectrometer

Functional imaging, 270

G

Gabor hologram, 144

Gamma rays, 172173, 271272

Gating optical intensifier, 89

Gaussian chain, 128, 304305

Gaussian polymer coil, 128

Geiger counter, 172

Gel electrophoresis, 215217

Generalized Born approximation, 292

Genes, 2829

circuits, 355

concatemerization, 244

editing, 244

knockouts (see Deletion mutants)

regulation, 244, 351

Genome, 28

Genotype, 348

Geometrical light scattering, 123

Geonavigation, 374

G-factor, 58

Gillespie algorithm, 352

Gliding, 190

Glutaraldehyde, 141

Glycocalyx, 14

Goldman equation, 218

Golgi body, 16

GPUs, see Graphics processor units

Gram-negative, 18

Gram-positive, 18

Granocentric model, 339

Graphics processor units (GPUs), 297298

Gray goo, see Nanobots

GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations (GROMACS), 295296

Ground state depletion, 105

Guinier model, 127

Gyromagnetic ratio, 160

H

Hagen–Poiseuille flow, see Poiseuille flow

Hahn echo, see Spin-echo

Half potential, 283

Hamaker constant, 206

Hamiltonian operator, 287

Hard x-rays, 157

Hartree–Fock approximations, 288

H-bonding, see Hydrogen bonding

HeLa cells, see Immortal cells

Helfrich forces, 44

α-Hemolysin, 220221

Hertz model, 204

HF, see Hartree–Fock approximations

Hidden Markov model (HMM), 105

Highly inclined and laminated optical sheet illumination (HILO), see Oblique epifluorescence

High-speed spinning disk confocal microscopy, 86

High-throughput techniques, 253267

Hill equation, 298

HIO algorithm, see Hybrid input–output algorithm

HMM, see Hidden Markov model

Hoffmann modulation contrast (HMC) microscopy, 67

Holographic optical traps, 188

Homeostasis, 347

Hooke’s law, 204, 307, 340341

Human embryonic kidney cells, see Immortal cells

Hybrid classical and quantum mechanical methods (Hybrid QM/MM), 289, 293

Hybrid input–output algorithm (HIO algorithm), 154

Hydration layer, see Solvation shell

Hydration pockets, 292

Hydration shell, see Solvation shell

Hydraulic radius, 259260

Hydrodynamic radius, see Stokes radius

Hydrodynamics, see Rheology

Hydrogels, 310, 376

Hydrogen bonding (H-bonding), 2325, 46, 291

Hydrophobic forces, 21, 25, 56

Hyperfine interactions, 163, 172

Hyperspace, 328

Hyperspectral imaging, 133

I

ICCD, see Intensified CCD

Ideal chain limit, 306

Ig, see Immunoglobulin

Image classes, 328

Image denoising, 326

Image segmentation, 326

Immortal cells, 239

Immune system, 235, 239

Immunogenic, 236

Immunoglobulin (Ig), 43, 209, 235236

Immunostaining, 73, 143

Impalefection, 242

Implicit solvent, 291292

Inelastic scattering, 131134

Infrared (IR)

imaging, 273

spectroscopy, 5255

Inner filter effect, 56

Insertion mutant, 243

In silico drug design, 371

Integrationist, 348

Intensified CCD (ICCD), 64

Intensity centroid, 100, 329

Interaction energy, 298

Interchangeable parts, 355

Interfacial free energy, 250

Interference filters, 69

Interferometric light scattering microscopy, 130131

Intermediate filaments, 17

Internal conversion, 55

Intersystem crossing, 56

Ionicity, 283

Ionic strength, 283

Ion trap, 199

iSCAT, see Interferometric light scattering microscopy

Ising model, 298300

Isopropyl-ß-D-thio-galactoside (IPTG), 244

Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), 268

Isotropic emissions, 58

J

Jablonski diagram, 55

Jarzynski equality, 316

Joule–Thompson effect, 165

Jurkat cells, see Immortal cells

K

Kappa squared factor, see Dipole orientation factor

KDE, see Kernel density estimation

Kelvin probe microscopy, 212

Kernel density estimation (KDE), 330

Kerr effect, see Two-photon absorption

K-means, 328, 351

Knudsen cell, 256

Köhler illumination, 64

Kolmogorov equation, see Smoluchowski equation

Kramers theory, 315316

Kratky–Porod model, see Wormlike chain

Kuhn length, 302

L

Label-free methods, 97, 108, 120, 124, 131132, 133

Lab-on-a-chip, 256, 367369

LacI, 8789, 244

Lac operon, 8789, 244

Laguerre–Gaussian beams, 194

Lambda DNA, 238

Lambda phage, 238

Lamellipodia, 17

Laminar flow, 259

Lamor frequency, 161

Langevin dynamics, 293294

Langevin equation, 189

Langevin force, 47, 189

Lanthanides, 76

Laser dark field, see Dark field microscopy

Laser diffraction, 225

Laser-induced optoacoustic spectroscopy, 60

Laser microsurgery, 273

Laser tweezers, see Optical tweezers

Lateral spatial resolution, 87

Laue method, 154

LD, see Linear dichroism

LeapFrog algorithm, 281

Lennard–Jones potential, 44, 282

Leucine zipper, 104

Level-broadening effect, 373

Levinthal’s paradox, 316

Light sheet microscopy, 124125

Linear accelerator (LINAC), 152

Linear dichroism (LD), 57

Lipid rafts, 21

Lipids, 2022

Lipid vesicle, 21, 341

Liposomes, 22

Liquid crystals, 66, 163, 180

Localization microscopy, 90, 100103, 329; see also Colocalization analysis

Lock-in amplifier, 213

Logic gates, 212, 357

Lone pair electrons, 291

Lorentzian, 190

Lorentz oscillators, 80

Low-voltage electron microscopy (LVEM), 143

Lymphocytes, 239

Lysosomes, 17

Lysozyme, 262

M

Magnetic beads, 198

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 268270

Magnetic tweezers, 200202

Magnetofection, 242

Magnetoreception, 374

Magnetospirilum, 374

Magnetotaxis, see Magnetoreception

Magnetron, 256

Magnification, 6162

MALDI, see Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization

Maleimide, 235

Many-body potential energy function, 283

Markov processes, 105, 310311

Mass spectrometry, 198199

Mass-to-charge ratio, 198199

Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI), 199

Matter waves, 141

Maximum a posteriori, 327

Maximum entropy, 327

Maximum likelihood methods, 328

Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution, 279

Maxwell’s electromagnetic equations, 8082, 184

Maxwell’s relations, 267

MCPs, see Methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins

MD, see Molecular dynamics

Mean free collision path, 142143

Median filters, 336

Membrane fence model, 18

Membrane proteins, 58, 142, 147

MEMS, see Microelectromechanical systems

Merodiploid, 246

Mesoscale, 341

Messenger RNA (mRNA), 29

Metalloproteins, 157

Metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS), 63

Metamaterials, 253, 363

Methanethiosulfonate, 235

Methicillin-resistant S. aureus, 18, 220

Methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs), 352

Metropolis criterion, 285

Micelles, 21

Michaelis–Menten kinetics, 316317

Microbial flora, 262

Microdomains, 22

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), 254

Microfabrication, 254259

Microfilaments, 17

Microfluidics, 56, 181, 259261, 266267

Microlenses, 119

Microplate reader, 262

MicroRNA, 244

Microtome, 142

Microtubules, 17

Mie/Tyndall light scattering, 55, 122123, 125

Mini call, 312

Minimal model, 311

MiniSOG, 146

Missing wedge, 144

Mitochondria, 17

MM, see Molecular mechanics

Model organisms, 237241

Modularity, 103, 329, 351

Molecular clock, 16

Molecular combing, 182183

Molecular confinement, 17

Molecular docking, 295

Molecular dynamics (MD), 279298

Molecular heterogeneity, 12, 178179

Molecular interaction maps, 90

Molecular mechanics (MM), 1213, 83, 225, 281, 324326, 360

Molecular motors, 13, 25, 83, 194, 311, 338

Molecular ruler, 114

Molecular signature, 209

Molecular statics, 278

Molecular weight, 46, 118, 126

Monochromator, 151

Monoclonal, 236

Monod–Wyman–Changeux (MWC) model, 298

Monte Carlo methods, 285287

Moore’s law, 296

Morphogensis, 312

Morse potential, 205

MOS, see Metal-oxide semiconductor

Moseley’s law, 150

Mössbauer spectroscopy, 172173

Motifs, 24, 351

Motility assay, 83

Mouse ear cress, see Arabidopsis

MPE, see Multiphoton excitation

MRI, see Magnetic resonance imaging

mRNA, see Messenger RNA

MS, see Molecular statics

MSA, see Multivariate statistical analysis

Multicellularity, 14

Multidimensional NMR, 167168

Multilayered solvent model, 293

Multiphoton excitation, 121124

Multiplane imaging, 108

Multivariate statistical analysis, 328

Mu phage, 238

Muscle, 83, 191192, 209, 225, 272273, 370

Mycoplasma, 32, 363

N

NAMD, see Nanoscale molecular dynamics

Nanobots, 369

Nanodroplets, 220222

Nanoeye, 221

Nanofluidics, see Microfluidics

Nanoimprimpt, 255

Nanomedicine, 369371

Nanoscale molecular dynamics (NAMD), 296

Nanostructures, 356

Nanothermometers, 123

Nanowires, 361, 372

Narrow-field, 9192

Natural selection, 3940

Navier–Stokes equation, 254255, 323324

N@C60, 375

ND, see Neutral density

Near-field optical microscopy (NFOM), 108

Near-TIRF, see Oblique epifluorescence

Nernst equation, 39, 218

Nerves, 145, 174, 348, 369370, 374

Neuroengineering, 248

Neutral density (ND), 68

NeutrAvidin, see Streptavidin

Neutron diffraction, 173174

Newtonian fluid, 259

NFOM, see Near-field optical microscopy

Nipkow disk, see High-speed spinning disk confocal microscopy

Nitroxide, 168

NMR, see Nuclear magnetic resonance

Noncontact mode, 206208

Nonequilibrium states, 18, 289290

Normal modes, 328

NSOM, see Near-field optical microscopy

Nuclear imaging, 271

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), 12, 146, 159168

Nuclear overhauser effect, 164

Nucleic acids, 2730

Nucleoid, 16

Nucleus, 1516, 22

Numerical aperture, 6163, 141, 192

Numerical focusing, see Ptychography

Nyquist theory, 101

O

Objective lens, 6163, 6567, 83, 8687, 91

Oblique epifluorescence, 7980

OCT, see Optical coherence tomography

OD, see Optical density

Ohm’s law, 217, 361

OLID, see Optical lock-in detection

Oligo inserts, see Oligonucleotide labelling

Oligonucleotide labelling, 74, 236237

One-hybrid assay, 264

1PE, see Single-photon excitation

Onsager reaction field potential, 293

Ophthalmology, 125

Optical activity, see Birefringence

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), 125

Optical density, 54

Optical dispersion, 52, 80

Optical interferometry, 5960

Optical lithography, see Photolithography

Optical lock-in detection (OLID), 78

Optical path length, 64, 125

Optical resolution limit, see Abbe limit

Optical sections, 87, 119

Optical spanners, 194

Optical stretcher, 192

Optical switches, 361

Optical trap, 183, 186194

Optical tweezers, 57, 183197, 219, 225, 290, 369

Optogenetics, 124, 239, 246238

Organelles, 17

Organic dyes, 7374

Osmosis, 18, 181182

Osmotic chamber, 182

Osteoblasts, 370

Over-damped simple harmonic motion, 189

Overhang, see Toehold

Overstretch transition, 191

P

PALM, see Photoactivatable localization microscopy

Paraffin wax, 142

Parallel tempering, see Replica exchange MCMC sampling

Paramagnetic materials, 198

Particle in a box, 75

Particle mesh Ewald (PME), 43, 284

Particle-particle-particle-mesh (PPPM), 283

Pascal’s triangle, 163

Patch clamping, 217

Patterned illumination microscopy, see Structured illumination microscopy

Pattern formation, 312

Patterson function, 154

Pauli exclusion principle, 44, 206

PBCs, see Periodic boundary conditions

PCA, see Principal component analysis

PDMS, see Polydimethylsiloxane

PEG, see Polyethylene glycol

Peptide bonds, 2223

Peptides, 2224

Periodic boundary conditions (PBCs), 291

Persistence length, 191, 305

Personalized medicine, 366371

PET, see Positron emission tomography

pH, 24, 46

Phase contrast microscopy, 6566

Phase modulation plate, 109

Phase problem, 154

Phase ring, 66

Phenol extraction, 241

Phenotype, 4041, 348

pHlourin, 77

Phospholipids, 17, 2022, 220, 341

Phosphorescence, 56

Photoacoustic imaging, 272

Photoactivatable localization microscopy (PALM), 104

Photoactivation, see Stochastic activation

Photobleaching, 7273, 101, 103

Photoblinking, 73, 76, 104105

Photoelasticity, 186

Photoelectric effect, 63

Photolithography, 254256

Photomultiplier tube (PMT), 61, 144

Photon budget, 101

Photon correlation spectroscopy, see Dynamic light scattering

Photonics, 361, 367

crystals, 253

waveguides, 108

Photoresist, 255256

Photoselection rule, 58

Photoswitching, 104

Photosynthesis, 17, 36, 361, 372

Photothermal deflection spectroscopy, 60

Photothermal diffraction, 60

Phototoxicity, 68

Piezoelectric effect, 224

Pixelation noise, 100

Pixel thresholding, 327

Planctomycetes, 17

Plant biomechanics, 338

Plasma ashing, 363

Plasma medicine, 274

Plasmids, 29

PME, see Particle mesh Ewald

PMT, see Photomultiplier tube

Podosomes, 17

Point mutation, 243

Point spread function (PSF), 62, 98100

corkscrew, 109

double-helix, 109

Poiseuille flow, 259

Poisson–Boltzmann model, 292293

Poisson sampling, 89, 131, 188189, 191, 328

Polarizable explicit solvent model, 291

Polarization spectroscopy, 5759

Polarized light microscopy, 66

Polyacrylamide, 215

Polychromic light 52, 151

Polyclonal, 236

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), 226, 260261

Polydisperse diffusion, 118

Polyethylene glycol (PEG), 195

Positron emission tomography (PET), 173, 271272

Potential of mean force (PMF), 282

PPPM, see Particle-particle-particle-mesh

Primary antibody, 73

Primary hydration shell method, 291

Primary structure, 23

Principal component analysis, 146, 328

Prism method, 83

Programmed cell death, 239

Prokaryotes, 1516

Protein circuit, 355

Protein Data Bank, 151, 248

Proteins, 2224, 66

Proteolysis, 245; see also Degrons

Proteomics, 42, 199

Proton motive force (PMF), 39

Protoplast fusion, 242

Pseudopotentials, 281

Pseudo-TIRF, 82; see also Oblique epifluorescence

PSF, see Point spread function

Ptychography, 120122, 148

Pull-down assay, 262

Purines, 27

Pyridyl disulfide, 235

Pyrimidines, 27, 78

Q

QCM, see Quartz crystal microbalance

QCM-D, see Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring

QDs, see Quantum dots

QM/MM, see Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanics

Quadrant photodiode (QPD), 61, 188189, 201

Quadrupole, 163, 199

Quality factor, 367

Quantum biology, 371375

Quantum chromodynamics, 159

Quantum coherence, 373

Quantum computing, 373374

Quantum dots (QDs), 7276

Quantum electrodynamics, 353

Quantum mechanical/molecular mechanics (QM/MM), 281

Quantum numbers, 150, 160, 165, 170171, 288

Quantum rods, 74

Quantum tunneling, 36, 211212, 288, 361, 372

Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), 224225

Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D), 224225

Quasielastic light scattering, see Dynamic light scattering

Quasi-TIRF, see Oblique epifluorescence

R

Radiation damage, 158159

Radio frequency heating, 268

Radioisotope, see Radionuclide

Radiology, 270

Radionuclide, 173, 271

Radiotherapy, 273274

Radius of gyration, 126, 128, 303304

Ramachandran plot, 24

Raman microscopy, 132133

Raman–Nath diffraction, 186

Raman spectroscopy, 131132

Random coil, 24

Random flight model, see Freely jointed chain

Random telegraph model, 335

Random walk, 68, 299, 302

Ratiometric pH indicators, 77

Rayleigh criterion, 98100, 332

Rayleigh equation, 126

Rayleigh light scattering, 122123, 126

Ray-optics, 184

Reaction-diffusion equation, 310312

Reaction-diffusion processes, 92, 310322

Reaction limited, 310

Reactive force field (ReaxFF), 289

Readout noise, 64

ReAsH, see Resorufin arsenical helix

Recombinant DNA, 241

Redox enzymes, 361

Reduced mass, 52

Reduced model, see Minimal model

Reductionist, 347

Regenerative medicine, 226, 363, 370371

Relativistic relation, 140

Relaxation pathways, 73

Replica exchange MCMC sampling, 287

Resonance Raman spectroscopy, 132

Resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering (RIXS), 155

Resorufin arsenical helix (ReAsH), 74

Restriction endonucleases, 241

Restriction sites, 241

Reverse engineering, 354

Reynolds number, 189, 259

Rheology, 179183

Rhodopsins, 221, 247248

Ribonucleic acid (RNA), 16, 2930

absorbance, 54

interference, 244

polymerase, 34, 192

silencing, 243244

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA), 16

Ribosomes, 16

Ribozymes, 25

Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (RuBisCO), 36

RIXS, see Resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering

RNA, see Ribonucleic acid

Robustness, 351, 356

Rodlike limit, 306

Rotational correlation time, 58

rRNA, see Ribosomal

RNA RuBisCO, see Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase

S

Saccharomyces, 14, 239

Saffman–Delbrück equations, 18, 59

Salmonella, 352

Salt bridges, 25

Salting out, 249

SAM instrument, see Simple analysis at Mars instrument

Sanger shotgun, see DNA sequencing

SANS, see Small-angle neutron scattering

Satellite lines, 151

Satellite transitions, 161

Saturated pattern excitation microscopy, 107

Saturated structured illumination microscopy (SSIM), 105

Saturation curve, 249250

Sawtooth pattern, 209

SAXS, see Small-angle x-ray scattering

Scaffolds, 358

Scale-free networks, 351

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), 207

Scanning ion conductance microscopy (SICM), 211212

Scanning IR spectrophotometers, 52

Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM), see Near-field optical microscopy

Scanning transmission x-ray microscope (STXM), 156

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), 202, 211

Scattering formula, see Rayleigh equation

Scattering vector, 128

Schrödinger’s equation, 75, 281

SDM, see Site-directed mutagenesis

SDS, see Sodium dodecyl sulfate

SDS-Page, see Gel electrophoresis

SE, see Spin-echo

Secondary antibody, 73

Secondary structure, 23

Second harmonic imaging, 124, 253

Second-order nonlinear optical imaging of chiral crystals, 253

Sector mass spectrometer, 198

Sedimentation coefficient, 180

Seed crystals, 252

Selectively permeable membrane, 18, 181

Selective plane illumination microscopy, see Light sheet microscopy

Selective pressures, 14

Selfish genes, 14

Sellmeier equation, 80

SEM, see Scanning electron microscopy

Semiempirical potentials, 289

Semipermeable membrane, see Selectively permeable membrane

SERS, see Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

SHI, see Second harmonic imaging

Shot noise, 188189

SICM, see Scanning ion conductance microscopy

Signal transduction, 35, 349

SILAC, see Stable isotopic labeling by amino acids in cell culture

Silver staining, 216

SIM, see Structured illumination microscopy

Simple analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, 199

Simulated annealing, 287

Singer–Nicholson model, 18

Single-beam gradient force trap, see Optical tweezers

Single crystal monochromatic radiation method, 154

Single-molecule FRET (smFRET), 113116

Single-molecule high-resolution colocalization, 102

Single-particle tracking, see Localization microscopy

Single-particle tracking localization microscopy (TALM), 102

Single-photon emission CT (SPECT), 271272

Single-photon excitation, 55

Single point charge (SPC), 291

Site-directed mutagenesis, 235

612 potential, see Lennard–Jones potential

Skin, 225, 370

Sleeping sickness, 239

Slimfield, 9192

SLM, see Spatial light modulator

SLS, see Static light scattering

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), 174

Small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), 5, 155, 225

Small interfering RNA, 244

SMD, see Steered MD

smFRET, see Single-molecule FRET

Smoluchowski equation, 294, 310311

SNAP/CLIP tags, 7778, 245

Snap freezing, see Cryofixation

Snell’s law, 80

Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), 215

Soft condensed matter, 1112

Soft-matter nanopores, 220222

Solid-state nanopores, 219220

Solvation shell, 291

Solvation sphere, see Solvation shell

Solvent evaporation method, 250

Sonication, 242

Sonoporation, 242

SOS response, 274

Sparrow limit, 99100

Spatial light modulator (SLM), 109, 120, 188

Spatial sampling, 349

SPECT, see Single-photon emission CT

Spectral imaging, 90

Spectrophotometry, 5255

Spin-echo (SE), 167

Spin-flip, 161

Spin labels, 168

Spin–lattice relaxation, 164

Spin-1/2 nuclei, 159

Spin–spin relaxation, 164

SPR, see Surface plasmon resonance

SPRAIPAINT, see Super resolution by power-dependent active intermittency and points accumulation for imaging in nanoscale topography

Sputtering, 256

Squid giant axon, 268

SSIM, see Saturated structured illumination microscopy

Stable isotopic labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC), 199

Standard model, 159

Staphylococcus, 18, 220

Staples, 358

Starch, 17, 27

Static light scattering (SLS), 126128

STED, see Stimulated-emission depletion microscopy

Steered MD (SMD), 289290

Stem cells, 226, 370

Stepper motors, 264

Sticky end, see Toehold

Stillinger–Weber potential, 205

Stimulated-emission depletion microscopy (STED), 105107

STM, see Scanning tunneling microscopy

Stochastic activation, 104

Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), 104

Stokes–Einstein relation, 46, 59, 129

Stokes radius, 73, 128, 130, 189, 305

Stokes shift, 69

Stopped-flow techniques, 173

STORM, see Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy

Streitz–Mintmire model, 289

Streptavidin, 234

Strobing, 92

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM), 107

Student t-test, see T-test

STXM, see Scanning transmission x-ray microscope

SU-8, 256

Subclass averaging, 146, 328

Subdiffusion, see Anomalous diffusion

Substoichiometric labeling, 103

Subtractive manufacturing, 257

Sugars, 2627

Sulfhydryl, 234

Supercoiling, 29

Supercomputing, 296298

Superconductivity, 152, 164165, 170, 361

Super-resolution, 98111, 327

Super resolution by power-dependent active intermittency and points accumulation for imaging in nanoscale topography (SPRAIPAINT), 105

Supersatarution, 248249

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), 132

Surface plasmon resonance (SPR), 5960

Surface plasmons, 60, 65

Swarming, 377

Synapse, 248

Synchrotron radiation, 53, 151

Synovial fluid, 337

Synthetic biology, 210, 353366

Syringe pumps, 260

Systems biophysics, 219, 347353

T

TALENs, see Transcription activator-like effector nucleases

Tapping mode, 206208

TCSPC, see Time-correlated single-photon counting

Technetium, 271

Tellurium dioxide, 186

TEM, see Transmission electron microscopy

Template matching, 328

Templates, see Scaffolds

Temporal sampling, 349

Tensor interaction, 159

Terahertz gap, 168

Terahertz imaging, 168

Terahertz radiation (T-rays), 168

Terahertz spectroscopy, 168169

TERS, see Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Tersoff potential, 283

Tertiary structure, 23

Tetramethylsilane (TMS), 162

Thermal ablation, 273

Thermal bath, 179

Thermal equilibrium, 11, 281

Thermal imaging, see Infrared

Thermalization, 169

Thermal neutrons, 173174

Thermal ratchet, 12, 311

Thermionic emission, 140

Thermistor, 267

Thermoacoustic imaging, 272

Thermodynamic potentials, 267

Thermoplastics, 257

Thermostats, 294

Thin-film optics, 253

Third-harmonic imaging, 124

Thompson elastic scattering, 152

3B microscopy, 105

3D printing, 257258

Three-hybrid assay, 264

3PE, see Three-photon excitation microscopy

Three-photon excitation microscopy (3PE), 123

3T3 cells, see Immortal cells

Tight-binding potentials, see Semiempirical potentials

Tight-binding second-moment approximation, see Embedded-atom method

Time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC), 89

Tip broadening convolution artifact, 207

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), 132

TIRF microscopy, see Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

Tissue, 1415

acoustics, 269

decolorization, 125

engineering, 226, 363

impedance tomography, 268

resection, 126

Titin, 191, 208209, 225

TMS, see Tetramethylsilane

Toehold, 360

Tomogram, 271

Topoisomerases, 201

Torsional AFM, 207

Torsional constraints, 201

Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, 60, 8083, 192194

Transautophosphorylation, 352

Transcription, 16

activator-like effector nucleases, 244

initiation complex, 263

Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), 244

Transcriptor, see Biological transistor

Transduction, 242; see also Signal transduction

Transfection, 242

magnet-assisted (see Magnetofection)

optical transfection, 242

Transfer RNA (tRNA), 30

Transformation, 242

Transition dipole moment, 58

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), 143144

Transmission x-ray microscope (TXM), 156

Transverse relaxation optimized spectroscopy (TROSY), 168

T-rays, see Terahertz radiation

Triangulation, 114

tRNA, see Transfer RNA

TROSY, see Transverse relaxation optimized spectroscopy

Trypanosoma, 239

Tryptophan fluorescence, 56

T-test, 337

Turbulent flow, 259

Turing machine, 312

12–6 potential, see Lennard–Jones potential

2PE, see Two-photon excitation microscopy

Two-photon absorption, 121122

Two-photon excitation microscopy, 121122

TXM, see Transmission x-ray microscope

U

UFM, see Ultrasonic force microscopy

Ultrafiltration, see Osmosis

Ultrasonic force microscopy (UFM), 212213

Ultrasound techniques, 272

Ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy, 54

Umbrella sampling, 287

Undulators, 152

Unicellularity, 14

V

Vacuoles, 17

van der Waals forces (VdW), 25, 43, 282

Vapor diffusion methods, 250

Variable-angle epifluorescence, see Oblique epifluorescence

VdW, see van der Waals forces

Vector, 241

Velocity selector, 199

Verlet algorithm, 281

Vertical transitions, 56

Virial coefficients, 128

Virtual objective lens, 121

Virtual state, 121122

Viruses, 18, 238

Visual molecular dynamics (VMD), 296

Vitrification temperature, 145

W

Water-immersion objective lens, 83

Watershedding, 327

Waveguides, 108, 273

Wavelet transform (WT), 328

Weighted histogram analysis, 287

Western blotting, 216

Whispering gallery mode, 108

White-light supercontinuum lasers, see Broadband laser

Wormlike chain, 305306

WT, see Wavelet transform

X

XAS, see X-ray absorption spectroscopy

XFEL, see X-ray free-electron laser

XPS, see X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

X-ray absorption near edge structure, 157

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), 157

X-ray crystallography, 4, 146

X-ray diffraction, 225

X-ray fluorescence, 150, 157

X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL), 152

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), 157

X-ray pump-probe, 152

X-ray spectrometer, 144

X-ray spectroscopy, 144, 157158

X-ray tube, 149150

Y

Yeast two-hybrid assay (Y2H), 262264

Young’s modulus, 204

Z

Zebrafish, 240

Zeeman interaction, 160

Zimm model, 127

Zirconia, 126

Zirconium dioxide, 126

Z-stacks, 119