Resolving the discrepancies among nucleic acid conformational analyses

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1563-1575

  Lu, Xiang Jun ^a   Olson, Wilma K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Base pair geometry; Conflicting rise values; Dimer step parameters; Nucleic acid conformational analysis; Nucleic acid structure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033614014     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2390     Document Type: Article

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