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In the spirit of former winter workshops at the “Frontier Between Physics and Biology” organized at Les Houches, the first talk is an overview of the physics of the chosen topic and is intended to be an introduction into the methods used by physicists.
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Forgacs, G. (1998). Cooperative Phenomena in Physical Networks. In: Beysens, D.A., Forgacs, G. (eds) Dynamical Networks in Physics and Biology. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03524-5_1
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