Efficient chain moves for Monte Carlo simulations of a wormlike DNA model: Excluded volume, supercoils, site juxtapositions, knots, and comparisons with random-flight and lattice models

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 128, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Zhirong ^a,b   Chan, Hue Sun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TRANSCRIPTION;

CONFORMATIONAL FEATURE; LATTICE MODELS;

DNA;

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 42349088217     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2899022     Document Type: Article

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