ABSTRACT
The application domains of statistical physics in biology are multiple and led to the inclusion of statistical physics into the teaching programs of many courses at university level whose topics include bioinformatics methods for extracting information content from nucleotide sequences and structures and protein packaging as well as from a number of omics technologies-driven data types. If these fields are by now mature, the chapter “Statistical Physics in Biology” aims to expose the readers to statistical physics applications, which afford to understand biological entities at the systemic level, analysing them not only as individual components, but also as interacting systems and their emergent properties.
