Chemically accurate coarse graining of double-stranded DNA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 47, 2010, Pages 20340-20345

  Savelyev, Alexey ^a   Papoian, Garegin A ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical coarse graining; Explicit ion electrostatics; Molecular simulations; One step renormalization; Polymer chain

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BASE PAIRING; COARSE GRAINED MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; IONIC STRENGTH; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 78650553525     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001163107     Document Type: Article

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