Conformational characteristics of DNA: Empirical classifications and a hypothesis for the conformational behaviour of dinucleotide steps

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1722, 1997, Pages 43-100

  El Hassan, M A ^a   Calladine, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3142518260     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1997.0002     Document Type: Article

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