A primer on the oxDNA model of DNA: when to use it, how to simulate it and how to interpret the results

A Sengar, TE Ouldridge, O Henrich… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The oxDNA model of Deoxyribonucleic acid has been applied widely to systems in biology,
biophysics and nanotechnology. It is currently available via two independent open source …

A molecular view of DNA flexibility

A Marin-Gonzalez, JG Vilhena, R Perez… - Quarterly Reviews of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
DNA dynamics can only be understood by taking into account its complex mechanical
behavior at different length scales. At the micrometer level, the mechanical properties of …

Discovery and design of soft polymeric bio-inspired materials with multiscale simulations and artificial intelligence

C Zhai, T Li, H Shi, J Yeo - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Materials chemistry is at the forefront of the global “Fourth Industrial Revolution”, in part by
establishing a “Materials 4.0” paradigm. A key aspect of this paradigm is developing …

DNA sequence and methylation prescribe the inside-out conformational dynamics and bending energetics of DNA minicircles

J Yoo, S Park, C Maffeo, T Ha… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic genome and methylome encode DNA fragments' propensity to form nucleosome
particles. Although the mechanical properties of DNA possibly orchestrate such encoding …

Supercoiling and looping promote DNA base accessibility and coordination among distant sites

JM Fogg, A Judge, E Stricker, HL Chan… - Biophysical …, 2021 - cell.com
Thursday, February 25, 2021 221a sequences to superhelical apices. Base pair disruption
allows sharp bending at superhelical apices, which facilitates DNA writhing and, thus …

Accurate sequence-dependent coarse-grained model for conformational and elastic properties of double-stranded DNA

S Assenza, R Pérez - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2022 - ACS Publications
We introduce MADna, a sequence-dependent coarse-grained model of double-stranded
DNA (dsDNA), where each nucleotide is described by three beads localized at the sugar, at …

A Self‐Assembled Rhombohedral DNA Crystal Scaffold with Tunable Cavity Sizes and High‐Resolution Structural Detail

CR Simmons, T MacCulloch, F Zhang, Y Liu… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
DNA is an ideal molecule for the construction of 3D crystals with tunable properties owing to
its high programmability based on canonical Watson–Crick base pairing, with crystal …

Nanopore sequencing of short dsDNA after elongation by combination of ligation and PEAR

B Cheng, K Hu, Z Song, R An… - Bulletin of the Chemical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nanopore sequencing technology, as a third-generation method for DNA sequencing at the
single-molecule level, has attracted much attention and developed quickly due to the …

Coarse-grained modelling of DNA plectoneme pinning in the presence of base-pair mismatches

PR Desai, S Brahmachari, JF Marko, S Das… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Damaged or mismatched DNA bases result in the formation of physical defects in double-
stranded DNA. In vivo, defects in DNA must be rapidly and efficiently repaired to maintain …

Characterizing the free-energy landscapes of DNA origamis

CK Wong, C Tang, JS Schreck, JPK Doye - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We show how coarse-grained modelling combined with umbrella sampling using distance-
based order parameters can be applied to compute the free-energy landscapes associated …