A computer-generated supercoiled model of the pUC19 plasmid

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-18

  Kummerle E A ^a   Pomplun, E ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA modelling; Monte Carlo simulation; Polyline smoothing; Supercoiled plasmid; Track structure calculations

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CALCULATION; COMPUTER; ELASTICITY; ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PLASMID; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PLASMIDS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 13744259777     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-004-0431-2     Document Type: Article

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