A novel family of space-filling curves in their relation to chromosome conformation in eukaryotes

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 392, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 6375-6388

  Smrek, Jan ^a   Grosberg, Alexander Y ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; Fractal; Genome folding; Polymer; Space filling curve

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DNA; FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS; POLYMERS;

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; DNA CONFORMATIONS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; SELF-SIMILAR FRACTALS; SPACE-FILLING CURVE; SPATIAL CONFORMATION; STATISTICAL ENSEMBLES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

FILLING;

EID: 84885080016     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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