In Silico Single-Molecule Manipulation of DNA with Rigid Body Dynamics

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Carrivain, Pascal ^a,b   Barbi, Maria ^a   Victor, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES;

CONTROL PARAMETERS; FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; FORCE-EXTENSION; IN-SILICO; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS; OPEN DYNAMICS ENGINES; OPEN-SOURCE LIBRARIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RIGIDBODY DYNAMICS; SINGLE MOLECULE MANIPULATION;

RIGID STRUCTURES;

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA HELIX; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TORQUE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84895733094     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003456     Document Type: Article

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