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TRENDS IN GENETICS
Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 364-378Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2021.11.001
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- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland for his PhD studentship
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Fitting-free mechanistic models based on polymer simulations predict chromatin folding in 3D by focussing on the underlying biophysical mechanisms. This class of models has been increasingly used in conjunction with experiments to study the spatial organisation of eukaryotic chromosomes. Feedback from experiments to models leads to successive model refinement and has previously led to the discovery of new principles for genome organisation.
Fitting-free mechanistic models based on polymer simulations predict chromatin folding in 3D by focussing on the underlying biophysical mechanisms. This class of models has been increasingly used in conjunction with experiments to study the spatial organisation of eukaryotic chromosomes. Feedback from experiments to models leads to successive model refinement and has previously led to the discovery of new principles for genome organisation. Here, we review the basis of mechanistic polymer simulations, explain some of the more recent approaches and the contexts in which they have been useful to explain chromosome biology, and speculate on how they might be used in the future.
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