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Jörg Langowski: his scientific legacy and the future it promises
BACKGROUND: With the passing of Jörg Langowski 6 May 2017 in a sailplane accident, the scientific community was deprived of a strident and effective voice for DNA and chromatin molecular and computational biophysics, for open access publishing and for the creation of effective scientific research ne...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048899/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30026939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13628-018-0045-1 |
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author | Chirico, Giuseppe Gansen, Alexander Leuba, Sanford H. Olins, Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Smith, Jeremy C. Tóth, Katalin |
author_facet | Chirico, Giuseppe Gansen, Alexander Leuba, Sanford H. Olins, Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Smith, Jeremy C. Tóth, Katalin |
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description | BACKGROUND: With the passing of Jörg Langowski 6 May 2017 in a sailplane accident, the scientific community was deprived of a strident and effective voice for DNA and chromatin molecular and computational biophysics, for open access publishing and for the creation of effective scientific research networks. METHODS: Here, after reviewing some of Jörg’s key research contributions and ideas, we offer through the personal remembrance of his closest collaborators, a deep analysis of the major results of his research and the future directions they have engendered. CONCLUSIONS: The legacy of Jörg Langowski has been to propel a way of viewing biological function that considers living systems as dynamic and in three dimensions. This physical view of biology that he pioneered is now, finally, becoming established also because of his great effort. |
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spelling | pubmed-60488992018-07-19 Jörg Langowski: his scientific legacy and the future it promises Chirico, Giuseppe Gansen, Alexander Leuba, Sanford H. Olins, Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Smith, Jeremy C. Tóth, Katalin BMC Biophys Correspondence BACKGROUND: With the passing of Jörg Langowski 6 May 2017 in a sailplane accident, the scientific community was deprived of a strident and effective voice for DNA and chromatin molecular and computational biophysics, for open access publishing and for the creation of effective scientific research networks. METHODS: Here, after reviewing some of Jörg’s key research contributions and ideas, we offer through the personal remembrance of his closest collaborators, a deep analysis of the major results of his research and the future directions they have engendered. CONCLUSIONS: The legacy of Jörg Langowski has been to propel a way of viewing biological function that considers living systems as dynamic and in three dimensions. This physical view of biology that he pioneered is now, finally, becoming established also because of his great effort. BioMed Central 2018-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6048899/ /pubmed/30026939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13628-018-0045-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Correspondence Chirico, Giuseppe Gansen, Alexander Leuba, Sanford H. Olins, Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Smith, Jeremy C. Tóth, Katalin Jörg Langowski: his scientific legacy and the future it promises |
title | Jörg Langowski: his scientific legacy and the future it promises |
title_full | Jörg Langowski: his scientific legacy and the future it promises |
title_fullStr | Jörg Langowski: his scientific legacy and the future it promises |
title_full_unstemmed | Jörg Langowski: his scientific legacy and the future it promises |
title_short | Jörg Langowski: his scientific legacy and the future it promises |
title_sort | jörg langowski: his scientific legacy and the future it promises |
topic | Correspondence |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048899/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30026939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13628-018-0045-1 |
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