Editing Biophysics (section)

==Focus as a subfield==
While some colleges and universities have dedicated departments of biophysics, usually at the graduate level, many do not have university-level biophysics departments, instead having groups in related departments such as [[biochemistry]], [[cell biology]], [[chemistry]], [[computer science]], [[engineering]], [[mathematics]], [[medicine]], [[molecular biology]], [[neuroscience]], [[pharmacology]], [[physics]], and [[physiology]].  Depending on the strengths of a department at a university differing emphasis will be given to fields of biophysics.  What follows is a list of examples of how each department applies its efforts toward the study of biophysics. This list is hardly all inclusive. Nor does each subject of study belong exclusively to any particular department. Each academic institution makes its own rules and there is much overlap between departments.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

*[[Biology]] and [[molecular biology]] – [[Gene regulation]], single [[protein dynamics]], [[bioenergetics]], [[patch clamp]]ing, [[biomechanics]], [[virophysics]].
*[[Structural biology]] – Ångstrom-resolution structures of proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates, and complexes thereof.
*[[Biochemistry]] and [[chemistry]] – biomolecular structure, siRNA, nucleic acid structure, structure-activity relationships.
*[[Computer science]] – [[Neural network]]s, biomolecular and drug databases.
*[[Computational chemistry]] – [[molecular dynamics]] simulation, [[Docking (molecular)|molecular docking]], [[quantum chemistry]]
*[[Bioinformatics]] – [[sequence alignment]], [[structural alignment]], [[protein structure prediction]]
*[[Mathematics]] –  graph/network theory, population modeling, dynamical systems, [[phylogenetics]].
*[[Medicine]] –  biophysical research that emphasizes medicine. Medical biophysics is a field closely related to physiology. It explains various aspects and systems of the body from a physical and mathematical perspective. Examples are [[fluid dynamics]] of blood flow, gas physics of respiration, radiation in diagnostics/treatment and much more. Biophysics is taught as a preclinical subject in many [[medical schools]], mainly in Europe.
* [[Neuroscience]] – studying neural networks experimentally (brain slicing) as well as theoretically (computer models), membrane [[permittivity]].
*[[Pharmacology]] and [[physiology]] – [[channelomics]], [[electrophysiology]], biomolecular interactions, cellular membranes, [[polyketide]]s.
*[[Physics]] – [[negentropy]], [[stochastic processes]], and the development of new physical [[Scientific technique|technique]]s and [[instrumentation]] as well as their application.
*[[Quantum biology]] – The field of quantum biology applies [[quantum mechanics]] to biological objects and problems. [[Quantum decoherence|Decohered]] [[isomers]] to yield time-dependent base substitutions. These studies imply applications in quantum computing.
*[[Agronomy]] and [[agriculture]]
Many [[biophysical techniques]] are unique to this field. Research efforts in biophysics are often initiated by scientists who were biologists, chemists or physicists by training.