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When this project was started in 2007, very few models were available in the literature. In particular, no thermodynamic simulations of systems involving branched duplexes had been performed. It was therefore necessary to establish whether the aim of simulating nanotechnology with a coarse-grained model was a feasible one.
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In fact, after the model was implemented it was found that \(\cos (\phi _3)=\cos (\phi _4)\), and so the modulation could be simply calculated as \(\cos ^2(\phi _3)\).
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Ouldridge, T.E. (2012). A Novel DNA Model. In: Coarse-Grained Modelling of DNA and DNA Self-Assembly. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30517-7_2
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