Paper Awards
BPPB has set two paper awards, namely
Award for Outstanding Biophysics and Physicobiology Paper and
Biophysics and Physicobiology Editors' Choice Award.
The detail of the award is explained below.
Award for Outstanding Paper
This award is given by the Biophysical Society of Japan to authors who contributed to the advancement of biophysics and to BPPB journal and its predecessor, BIOPHYSICS journal. The Society selects an article among papers that were published during a specific time span before the year of the award and have an established reputation. The award will go to a groundbreaking article of which importance has been recognized.
Guidelines for the Biophysics and Physicobiology (BPPB) Awards
Awardees
| 2026 |
Hiroaki Hata, Duy Phuoc Tran, Mohamed Marzouk Sobeh, Akio Kitao Binding free energy of protein/ligand complexes calculated using dissociation Parallel Cascade Selection Molecular Dynamics and Markov state model.vol. 18, Pages 305-316 |
| 2025 |
Takeharu Sekiguchi, Shingo Sotoma and Yoshie Harada
Fluorescent nanodiamonds as a robust temperature sensor inside a single cell. 15 Pages 229-234 |
| 2024 |
Kojima K., Watanabe H.C., Doi S., Miyoshi N., Kato M., Ishikita H., and Sudo Y. （2018）Mutational analysis of the conserved carboxylates of anion channelrhodopsin-2 (ACR2) expressed in Escherichia coli and their roles in anion transport. 15 Pages 179-188 |
| 2023 |
Yumeka Yamauchi, Masae Konno, Shota Ito, Satoshi P. Tsunoda, Keiichi Inoue, Hideki Kandori（2017） Molecular properties of a DTD channelrhodopsin from Guillardia theta. 14: 57-66
Shoji Takada(2019) Gō model revisited. 16: 248-255 |
| 2022 |
A. Kitamura, M. Kinjo, (2018) Determination of diffusion coefficients in live cells using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching with wide-field fluorescence microscopy. 15: 1-7 |
| 2021 |
K. Oda, M. Kinoshita, (2015) Physicochemical origin of high correlation between thermal stability of a protein and its packing efficiency: a theoretical study for staphylococcal nuclease mutants. 12: 1-12 |
| 2020 |
T. Sakano et al.,(2016) Molecular dynamics analysis to evaluate docking pose prediction. 13: 181-194 |
| 2019 |
D. J. Castillo, S. Nakamura et al., (2013) The C-terminal periplasmic domain of MotB is responsible for load-dependent control of the number of stators of the bacterial flagellar motor. 9: 173-181 |
| 2018 |
Y. Nakamura et al., (2016) Switching of the positive feedback for RAS activation by Biophysics and Physicobiology Vol. a concerted function of SOS membrane association domains. 13: 1-11 |
| 2017 |
T. Kawabata et al., (2013) LigandBox: A database for 3D structures of chemical compounds. 9: 113-121. |
| 2016 |
Y. Sudo, et al., (2009) Comparative study of the ion flux pathway in stator units of proton- and sodium-driven flagellar motors. 5: 45-52. |
| 2015 |
T. Hayashi, et al., (2012) Full-Quantum chemical calculation of the absorption maximum of bacteriorhodopsin: a comprehensive analysis of the amino acid residues contributing to the opsin shift. 8: 115-125. |
| 2014 |
R. Kinjyo, et al., (2007) Similarity search for local protein structures at atomic resolution by exploiting a database management system. 3: 75-84. |
| 2013 |
S. Metsugi, et al., (2005) Sequence analysis of the gliding protein Gli349 in Mycoplasma mobile. 1:33-43. |
| 2012 |
C. Furukawa, et al, (2005) Ubiquity of log-normal distributions in intra-cellular reaction dynamics. 1: 25-31. |
Editors' Choice Award
This award is given by the Biophysical Society of Japan to authors of the manuscript on BPPB who made a scientifically unique contribution to biophysics. The Editorial Board selects an article among papers that were published last year. The award will go to an article which caught the eyes of the an editor.
Guidelines for the Biophysics and Physicobiology Editors' Choice Awards
Awardees
2026
| Improvement in positional accuracy of neural-network predicted hydration sites of proteins by incorporating atomic details of water-protein interactions and site searching algorithm 22, e220004 |
| Exploring hydrophilic sequence space to search for uncharted foldable proteins by AlphaFold2 22, e220005 |
| A low-cost electric micromanipulator and its application to single-cell electroporation 22, e220010 |
| A method for isolating and cryopreserving intact mitochondria with improved integrity and functionality 22, e220012 |
| HulaChrimson: A Chrimson-like cation channelrhodopsin discovered using freshwater metatranscriptomics from Lake Hula 22, e220014 |
| Visualization of peptidoglycan layer isolated from gliding diderm bacteria, Flavobacterium johnsoniae and Myxococcus xanthus, by quick-freeze deep-etch replica electron microscopy 22, e220019 |
| Finding differentially expressed genes between cell fates predicted by image-based deep learning 22, e220022 |
| Molecular properties of a viral heliorhodopsin, V2HeR2 22, e220024 |
| Schiff base deprotonation and structural changes in a mouse UV sensitive cone visual pigment revealed by FTIR spectroscopy at 77 K 22, e220030 |
2025
2024
2023
| H, Yokota, Quantitative and kinetic single-molecule analysis of DNA unwinding by Escherichia coli UvrD helicase. 19: e190006 |
| T. K. Suzuki, Phenotypic systems biology for organisms: Concepts, methods and case Studies. 19: e190011 |
| E. Ito, et al., Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex sensing analgesia. 19: e190014 |
| K. Inoue, et al., Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of base-pair mismatch recognition protein MutS sliding along DNA. 19: e190015 |
| T. Komoto, et al., Epigenetic-structural changes in X chromosomes promote Xic pairing during early differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. 19: e190018 |
| Y. Araiso, et al., Structural overview of the translocase of the mitochondrial outer membrane complex. 19: e190022 |
2022
2021
2020
| S. Konno, et al., Uncovering dehydration in cytochrome c refolding from urea- and guanidine hydrochloride-denatured unfolded state by high pressure spectroscopy. 16: 18-27 |
| S. Ishii, et al., Functional significance of HCM mutants of tropomyosin, V95A and D175N, studied with in vitro motility assays. 16: 28-40 |
| J. Kaneshiro, et al., Second harmonic generation polarization microscopy as a tool for protein structure analysis. 16: 147-157 |
| K. Shimizu, et al., Food deprivation changes chemotaxis behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans. 16: 167-172 |
| N. Go, Snake Cube Puzzle and Protein Folding. 16: 256-263 |
| L. Lee, Bohr equation and the lost allosteric Bohr effects in Symmetry. 16: 490-503 |
2019
2018
| K. Suzuki, et.al., Mechanical properties of spindle poles are symmetrically balanced. 14: 1-11 |
| A. Zamani, et.al., Kinetic characteristics of chimeric channelrhodopsins implicate the molecular identity involved in desensitization. 14: 13-22. |
| Y. Yamauchi, et.al., Molecular properties of a DTD channelrhodopsin from Guillardia theta. 14: 57-66. |
| K. Shimabukuro, et.al., Demonstration of Correlative Atomic Force and Transmission Electron Microscopy Using Actin Cytoskeleton. 14: 111-117. |
| A. Hashimoto, et.al., The change of picrotoxin-induced epileptiform discharges to the beta oscillation by carbachol in rat hippocampal slices. 14: 137-146. |
2017
2016
2015
2014
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