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BI/BII issue
« on: August 04, 2012, 02:34:45 pm »
Hi Xiang-Jun,

BI-BII feature is nice. however, the criteria e-z is probably not sufficient to define one or the other since, the way you do it, every nucleotide is either of the BI or BII type. Furthermore, I think that BI/BII is mainly used for B-DNA.

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Pascal
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Re: BI/BII issue
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2012, 03:13:30 pm »
As noted in the -tor output file,

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          e-z: epsilon - zeta
              BI:  e-z = [-160, +20]
              BII: e-z = [+20, +200]

The criteria are based on "Nucleic acid backbone parameters" at the Jena website. Do you have another definition?

Also, the BI/BII classification is purely backbone-based (epsilon and zeta torsion angles), not specific to "B-DNA" whose definition may require characterization of the base pair geometry.

Xiang-Jun
« Last Edit: April 12, 2013, 06:43:38 pm by xiangjun »

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Re: BI/BII issue
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2012, 01:13:02 pm »
OK, thanks for the link, I will look more into that and reply soon.

Pascal
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