title: Computational studies of polynucleotide flexibility.
abstract: Details of polynucleotide flexibility may be probed through a combination of semiempirical potential energy calculations and statistical mechanical analyses. The pseudorotational motions of the furanose and the long-range correlated rotations of the chain backbone are described briefly here.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D008433:Mathematics; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D011119:Polynucleotides; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D011119:Polynucleotides