DNA nanotweezers studied with a coarse-grained model of DNA

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Ouldridge, Thomas E ^a   Louis, Ard A ^a   Doye, Jonathan P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAINED MODELS; COARSE-GRAINED; FREE-ENERGY LANDSCAPE; HAIRPIN FORMATION; HELICAL PITCH; NANOTWEEZERS; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; TORSIONAL STIFFNESS;

GENES; MACHINERY;

DNA;

EID: 77951569390     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.178101     Document Type: Article

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