Modeling DNA structure, elasticity, and deformations at the base-pair level

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 15-

  Mergell, Boris ^a   Ejtehadi, Mohammad R ^a   Everaers, Ralf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DNA; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OLIGOMERS; OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATION; STACKING ENERGY;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

DNA;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 85014002810     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.021911     Document Type: Article

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