title: Framed curves and knotted DNA.
abstract: The present mini-review covers the local and global geometry of framed curves and the computation of twist and writhe in knotted DNA circles. Classical inequalities relating the total amount of bending of a closed space curve and associated knot parameters are also explained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 U.S.A.
authors.forename: Gregory S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Chirikjian
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation
chemical_list: D004247:DNA