Scaling exponents and probability distributions of DNA end-to-end distance

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Valle, Francesco ^a   Favre, Mélanie ^a   De Los Rios, Paolo ^a   Rosa, Angelo ^a   Dietler, Giovanni ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DNA LENGTH; GYRATION RADII; SCALING EXPONENTS;

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DNA;

DNA;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 28844445045     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.158105     Document Type: Article

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