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ArticleThe European physical journal. Special topics2014

Hydrodynamics of DNA confined in nanoslits and nanochannels.

Kevin D Dorfman, Damini Gupta, Aashish Jain, Abhiram Muralidhar, Douglas R Tree

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Article in The European physical journal. Special topics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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5 authors.

Kevin D DorfmanDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.
Damini GuptaDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.
Aashish JainDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.
Abhiram MuralidharDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.
Douglas R TreeDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 421 Washington Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA ; Materials Research Laboratory, University of California - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA.

Funding

Dynamics of DNA Barcoding in NanochannelsR01HG006851 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI DORFMAN, KEVIN D · 2013 to 2018
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NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG006851
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modeling the dynamics of a confined, semi exible polymer is a challenging problem, owing to the complicated interplay between the configurations of the chain, which are strongly affected by the length scale for the confinement relative to the persistence length of the chain, and the polymer-wall hydrodynamic interactions. At the same time, understanding these dynamics are crucial to the advancement of emerging genomic technologies that use confinement to stretch out DNA and "read" a genomic signature. In this mini-review, we begin by considering what is known experimentally and theoretically about the friction of a wormlike chain such as DNA confined in a slit or a channel. We then discuss how to estimate the friction coefficient of such a chain, either with dynamic simulations or via Monte Carlo sampling and the Kirk-wood pre-averaging approximation. We then review our recent work on computing the diffusivity of DNA in nanoslits and nanochannels, and conclude with some promising avenues for future work and caveats about our approach.

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PMCPMC4282777

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