Reply to "Comment on 'Theory of high-force DNA stretching and overstretching' ".
In his Comment to an earlier paper [Phys. Rev. E 67, 051906 (2003)]] Lam points out an error in Eq. (20) of the original paper. Here we show that use of the corrected expression produces results very similar to those presented in our original paper, so our qualitative conclusions are unchanged.
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Cornelis
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Nelson
Philip
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