Exploring polymorphisms in B-DNA helical conformations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 10668-10678

  Dans, Pablo D ^a,b   Pérez, Alberto ^a,c,d   Faustino, Ignacio ^a   Lavery, Richard ^e   Orozco, Modesto ^a,d,f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^e INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE ET CHIMIE DES PROTÉINES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA B; NAKED DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA, B-FORM; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84870578921     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks884     Document Type: Article

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