A brownian dynamics model for the chromatin fiber

Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 271-279

  Ehrlich, L ^a,c   Munkel C ^a   Chiricc, G ^b   Langowski, J ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELASTICITY; ELECTRICITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIC STRENGTH; MODEL; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMATIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTATICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOTION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030916931     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/13.3.271     Document Type: Article

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