Insights into gene expression and packaging from computer simulations

Biophysical Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 171-178

  Olson, Wilma K ^a   Clauvelin, Nicolas ^a   Colasanti, Andrew V ^a   Singh, Gautam ^a   Zheng, Guohui ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA looping; Histone tails; Monte Carlo simulations; Protein communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873129269     PISSN: 18672450     EISSN: 18672469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12551-012-0093-8     Document Type: Review

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