Computer simulations of DNA packing inside bacteriophages: Elasticity, electrostatics and entropy

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 317-325

  Marenduzzo, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer simulations; DNA packaging; DNA phages; Monte Carlo simulations; Single molecule experiments

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DISSOCIATION; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PACKAGING;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; DNA-PACKAGING; GENOME LENGTH; INTERNAL VOLUME; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SPHEROCYLINDERS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA PACKAGING; ELASTICITY; ELECTRICITY; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME;

MIRIDAE;

EID: 48549087980     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17486700802168205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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