Monte Carlo simulation of chromatin stretching

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

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Aumann, Frank ^a   Lankas, Filip ^b   Caudron, Maïwen ^c   Langowski, Jörg ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DNA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STIFFNESS;

CHROMATIN FIBERS; CHROMATIN STRETCHING; NUCLEOSOMES;

FIBERS;

CHROMATIN; DNA;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHROMATIN; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ELASTICITY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 33646343447     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.041927     Document Type: Article

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