T. Das and S. Chakraborty 2008 EPL 83 48003 doi:10.1209/0295-5075/83/48003
T. Das1 and S. Chakraborty2
Show affiliationsMelting transition of double-stranded oligonucleotide sequences, in contact with a Langevin fluctuation-dissipation thermal bath, is investigated. A general framework for studying stochastic phase transitions in single dimension is developed for realistic regimes of temperatures, by postulating base pair separation-dependent damping characteristics in the Langevin formalism. Close agreements are obtained between the simulation predictions and the experimental results for heterogeneous DNA sequences having a wide range of sequence lengths, without incurring any sequence-specific tuning of the conventional Peyrard-Bishop-Dauxois model. Certain universal characteristics of the free energy parameters of melting transition are also discovered, with a power law form of temperature dependence.
87.15.A- Theory, modeling, and computer simulation
05.10.Gg Stochastic analysis methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.)
Issue 4 (August 2008)
Received 20 December 2007, accepted for publication 2 July 2008
Published 19 August 2008
T. Das and S. Chakraborty 2008 EPL 83 48003
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