Self-programmable, self-assembling two-dimensional genetic matter

Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-99

  Sowerby, Stephen J ^a   Stockwell, Peter A ^a   Heckl, Wolfgang M ^b   Petersen, George B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; URACIL;

GENETICS; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION;

ADENINE; BIOGENESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; URACIL;

EID: 0034060645     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006616725062     Document Type: Article

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