Title
DNA-Tract Curvature Profile Reconstruction: A Fragment Flipping Algorithm
Abstract
At nanometric level of resolution DNA molecules can be idealized with one dimensional curved line. The curvature value along this line is composed by static and dynamic contributions. The first ones constitute the intrinsic curvature, vectorial function of the sequence of DNA nucletides, while the second ones, caused by thermal energy, constitute the flexibility. The analysis of intrinsic curvature are a central focus in several biochemical DNA researches. Unfortunately observing this sequence-driven chain curvature, is a difficult task, because the shape of the molecule is largely affected by the thermal energy, i.e. the flexibility. A recent approach to this problem shows a possible methodology to map the intrinsic curvature along the DNA chain, observing an Atomic Force Microscopy image of a population of the DNA molecule under study. Reconstructing the intrinsic curvature profile needs a computing method to exclude the entropic contributions from the imaged profiles of molecules and to detect fragment orientation on image. The heuristic-search algorithm we propose can be a solution for these two tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1007/3-540-36182-0_25
Discovery Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
dna chain,biochemical dna,thermal energy,fragment flipping algorithm,intrinsic curvature profile,intrinsic curvature,sequence-driven chain curvature,dna-tract curvature profile reconstruction,resolution dna molecule,dna nucletides,curvature value,dna molecule,atomic force microscopy,heuristic search
Population,Curvature,Search algorithm,Atomic force microscopy,Computer science,Algorithm,Image processing,DNA
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2534
0302-9743
3-540-00188-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniele Masotti1273.86