Coarse-grained model of nucleic acid bases
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Coarse-grained model of nucleic acid bases
Atomistic simulations of nucleic acids are prohibitively expensive and, consequently, reduced models of these compounds are of great interest in the field. In this work, we propose a physics-based coarse-grained model of nucleic-acid bases in which each base is represented by several (3-5) interaction centers. van der Waals interactions are modeled by Lennard-Jones spheres with a 12-6 potential...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Computational Chemistry
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0192-8651,1096-987X
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.21448