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SFI Working Paper Abstract

1996

Title:

The Repton Model of Gel Electrophoresis

Author(s):

G. T. Barkema and M. E. J. Newman

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Paper #:

96-12-086

Abstract:

We discuss the repton model of agarose gel electrophoresis of DNA. We review previous results, both analytic and numerical, present a new numerical algorithm for the efficient simulation of the model, and suggest a new approach to the model's analytic solutions.