Theory of self–contact in Kirchhoff rods with applications to supercoiling of knotted and unknotted DNA plasmids

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2004.1393zbMath1091.92002OpenAlexW2035238557WikidataQ35861071 ScholiaQ35861071MaRDI QIDQ5472054

Bernard D. Coleman, David Swigon

Publication date: 14 June 2006

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2004.1393

zbMATH Keywords

elastic rodscontact problemsDNA topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40) Biomechanics (92C10) Biophysics (92C05)

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