Properties of ideal composite knots

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6638, 1997, Pages 148-151

  Katritch, Vsevolod ^a   Olson, Wilma K ^a   Pieranski, Piotr ^b   Dubochet, Jacques ^c   Stasiak, Andrzej ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSS LINKING; DNA CONFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0030853427     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40582     Document Type: Article

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