Thermal denaturation of double-stranded DNA: Effect of base stacking

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Kohandel, Mohammad ^a   Ha, Bae Yeun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEATING; MONOMERS; SEPARATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA; THERMAL DENATURATION;

DNA;

EID: 32844469596     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.011905     Document Type: Article

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