Modeling self-contact forces in the elastic theory of DNA supercoiling

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3967-3980

  Westcott, Timothy P ^a,b   Tobias, Irwin ^a   Olson, Wilma K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTATICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERMITTIVITY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; VECTORS; VELOCITY;

DNA SUPERCOILING; EULER SYMMETRIC PARAMETERS; SELF CONTACT FORCES;

DNA;

EID: 0031559721     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.474752     Document Type: Article

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