Close encounters with DNA

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 26, Issue 41, 2014, Pages

  Maffeo, C ^a   Yoo, J ^a   Comer, J ^a   Wells, D B ^a   Luan, B ^b   Aksimentiev, A ^a  

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

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

charge inversion; counterions; effective charge; electrophoresis; molecular dynamics; nanopore; nucleic acids

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DNA; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPORES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

ALL-ATOM SIMULATIONS; CHARGE INVERSION; COUNTERIONS; EFFECTIVE CHARGE; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS METHODS; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; SYSTEMS AND PROCESS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

DNA;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84907452614     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/41/413101     Document Type: Review

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