Citation: Davood Norouzi, Ataur Katebi, Feng Cui, Victor B. Zhurkin. Topological diversity of chromatin fibers: Interplay between nucleosome repeat length, DNA linking number and the level of transcription[J]. AIMS Biophysics, 2015, 2(4): 613-629. doi: 10.3934/biophy.2015.4.613
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