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First ever high resolution observations of DNA unfolding

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 20.05.2010

First ever high resolution observations of DNA unfolding

The separation of the two DNA strands occurs in millionths of a second. Consequently, it is extremely difficult to study this phenomenon experimentally and researchers must rely on computational simulations. After four years of fine-tuning an effective physical model and massive use of the supercomputer Mare Nostrum, researchers at IRB Barcelona and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have managed to produce the first realistic simulation of DNA opening at high resolution. The scientists Modesto Orozco, group leader of the Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics Group at IRB Barcelona, Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Barcelona and director of the Life Sciences Dept. at the BSC, and Alberto Pérez, "Juan de la Cierva" researcher at BSC, currently at the University of California, San Francisco, (U.S.) publish their findings in a leading international chemistry journal, Angewandte Chemie.

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