Simulation Assisted Analysis of the Intrinsic Stiffness for Short DNA Molecules Imaged with Scanning Atomic Force Microscopy.

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Published in PLoS One on November 04, 2015

Authors

Haowei Wang1,2,3, Joshua N Milstein3,4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Heifei, Anhui, China.
2: Heifi National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Heifi, Anhui, China.
3: Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
4: Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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