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ArticleNatural computing2017

Design of nucleic acid strands with long low-barrier folding pathways.

Anne Condon, Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Ján Maňuch

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Article in Natural computing, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Anne CondonDepartment of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Bonnie KirkpatrickIntrepid Net Computing, Dillon, MT USA.
Ján MaňuchDepartment of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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Abstract

A major goal of natural computing is to design biomolecules, such as nucleic acid sequences, that can be used to perform computations. We design sequences of nucleic acids that are "guaranteed" to have long folding pathways relative to their length. This particular sequences with high probability follow low-barrier folding pathways that visit a large number of distinct structures. Long folding pathways are interesting, because they demonstrate that natural computing can potentially support long and complex computations. Formally, we provide the first scalable designs of molecules whose low-barrier folding pathways, with respect to a simple, stacked pair energy model, grow superlinearly with the molecule length, but for which all significantly shorter alternative folding pathways have an energy barrier that is [Formula: see text] times that of the low-barrier pathway for any [Formula: see text] and a sufficiently long sequence.

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Folding pathwaysLow-barrier pathwaysNucleic acid strandsSequence design

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PMID28690474
PMCPMC5480305

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