Nucleic acid polymeric properties and electrostatics: Directly comparing theory and simulation with experiment

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 232, Issue , 2016, Pages 49-56

  Sim, Adelene Y L ^a  

^a BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Ion atmosphere; Nucleic acids; Poisson Boltzmann theory; Polyelectrolytes; Polymer theory

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; GENES; IONS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYELECTROLYTES; POLYMERS;

COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS; GENE REGULATION FUNCTIONS; GENETIC INFORMATION; NEGATIVELY CHARGED; POISSON-BOLTZMANN THEORY; POLYMER THEORY; PROTEIN TRANSLATION; SIMULATION PARAMETERS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ION; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMER;

ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; HUMAN; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84951311085     PISSN: 00018686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2015.09.008     Document Type: Review

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