A combined wormlike-chain and bead model for dynamic simulations of long linear DNA

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 168-179

  Jian, Hongmei ^a   Vologodskii, Alexander V ^b   Schlick, Tamar ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; BOND LENGTH; CHAINS; DIFFUSION; DNA; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; TENSORS;

BASE PAIRS; BEAD MODELS; DYNAMICS PROPERTIES; DYNAMICS SIMULATION; LONG LINEAR; SECOND-ORDER ALGORITHMS; TIME STEP; TRANSLATIONAL DIFFUSION; TRANSLATIONAL DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; WORMLIKE CHAIN MODELS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0031234623     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1997.5765     Document Type: Article

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