Recent progress has been made in the understanding of the physical properties of
chromatin—the dense complex of DNA and histone proteins that occupies the nuclei of plant …

Functional RNA molecules depend on three-dimensional (3D) structures to carry out their
tasks within the cell. Understanding how these molecules interact to carry out their biological …

The existence or nonexistence of mirror symmetry plays an important role in nature. The lack
of mirror symmetry, called chirality, can be found in systems of all length scales, from …

The aim of this graduate-level textbook is to show how the balance laws for theories of rods
and strings can be applied in a systematic manner to develop models for a wide range of …

Inverse optimal control is the problem of computing a cost function with respect to which
observed state and input trajectories are optimal. We present a new method of inverse …

Methods are presented for obtaining exact analytical representations of supercoiled
equilibrium configurations of impenetrable elastic rods of circular cross-section that have …

Closing each strand of a DNA duplex upon itself fixes its linking number L. This topological
condition couples together the secondary and tertiary structures of the resulting ccDNA …

An elastic rod model of a protein-bound DNA loop is adapted for application in multi-scale
simulations of protein-DNA complexes. The classical Kirchhoff system of equations which …

CENP-A is a histone variant that replaces conventional H3 in nucleosomes of functional
centromeres. We report here, from reconstitutions of CENP-A-and H3-containing …

Results are presented in the theory of the elastic rod model for DNA, among which are
criteria enabling one to determine whether a calculated equilibrium configuration of a DNA …