Entropy, Energy, and Bending of DNA in Viral Capsids: Supplemental Material
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This appendix provides mathematical and numerical details complementing the main text of the article, listed in their order of appearance in the text. *Correspondence: [email protected] 1. The bending energy contribution to the DNA packaging free energy is given by
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