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ArticlePolymers2016

New Statistical Models for Copolymerization.

Martin S Engler, Kerstin Scheubert, Ulrich S Schubert, Sebastian Böcker

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Article in Polymers, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

4 authors.

Martin S EnglerChair of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743 Jena, Germany. martin.engler@uni-jena.de.
Kerstin ScheubertChair of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743 Jena, Germany. kerstin.scheubert@uni-jena.de.
Ulrich S SchubertLaboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstr. 10, 07743 Jena, Germany. ulrich.schubert@uni-jena.de.
Sebastian BöckerChair of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743 Jena, Germany. sebastian.boecker@uni-jena.de.

Funding

Thüringer Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur 12038-514
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For many years, copolymerization has been studied using mathematical and statistical models. Here, we present new Markov chain models for copolymerization kinetics: the Bernoulli and Geometric models. They model copolymer synthesis as a random process and are based on a basic reaction scheme. In contrast to previous Markov chain approaches to copolymerization, both models take variable chain lengths and time-dependent monomer probabilities into account and allow for computing sequence likelihoods and copolymer fingerprints. Fingerprints can be computed from copolymer mass spectra, potentially allowing us to estimate the model parameters from measured fingerprints. We compare both models against Monte Carlo simulations. We find that computing the models is fast and memory efficient.

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copolymer fingerprintcopolymer kineticsMarkov model

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PMID30979335
PMCPMC6432000

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