Modeling Nanopores for Sequencing DNA

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 749, Issue , 2011, Pages 317-358

  Comer, Jeffrey R ^b   Wells, David B ^b   Aksimentiev, Aleksei ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bionanotechnology; Computer simulations; Membrane proteins; Molecular dynamics; Nucleic acids; Transmembrane transport

Indexed keywords

DNA; HEMOLYSIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPORE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOPORES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84855168500     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-142-0_22     Document Type: Chapter

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