Recent magnetic tweezers experiments have reported systematic deviations of the twist
response of double-stranded DNA from the predictions of the twistable wormlike chain model. …

The density matrix renormalization group ( DMRG) is applied to some one-dimensional
reaction-diffusion models in the vicinity of and at their critical point. The stochastic time evolution …

Quantifying interactions in DNA microarrays is of central importance for a better understanding
of their functioning. Hybridization thermodynamics for nucleic acid strands in aqueous …

The steady-state phase diagram of the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion model 2 A→ 3 A,
2 A→ 0 is studied through the non-Hermitian density matrix renormalization group. In the …

The nature and the universal properties of DNA thermal denaturation are investigated by
Monte Carlo simulations. For suitable lattice models we determine the exponent c describing …

The real‐time identification of protein biomarkers is crucial for the development of point‐of‐care
and portable devices. Here, we use a PlyAB biological nanopore to detect haemoglobin (…

Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complexes play essential roles in genome
organization across all domains of life. To determine how the activities of these large (≈50 …

Recent work indicates that twist-bend coupling plays an important role in DNA micromechanics.
Here we investigate its effect on bent DNA. We provide an analytical solution of the …

We present a synthetic nanoscale piston that uses chemical energy to perform molecular
transport against an applied bias. Such a device comprises a 13 by 5 nm protein cylinder, …

Many important processes in biology involve the translocation of a biopolymer through a
nanometer-scale pore. Moreover, the electrophoretic transport of DNA across nanopores is …