The stochastic elastica and excluded-volume perturbations of DNA conformational ensembles

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1108-1120

  Chirikjian, Gregory S ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformation; Convolution; DNA; Ensemble; Excluded volume; Lie group; Probability density function

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DNA; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SOLUTIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

AND MODELING; BASE-LINES; CONFORMATIONAL ENSEMBLES; DNA CONFORMATIONS; ELASTICA; ENSEMBLE; EUCLIDEAN MOTIONS; EXCLUDED VOLUME; EXCLUDED VOLUMES; INTERACTION EFFECTS; LIE GROUP; PLANCK EQUATIONS; SAMPLE PATHS; SHORTER CHAINS; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VOLUME EFFECTS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 56949088567     PISSN: 00207462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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