Electronic transport in DNA.

@article{Klotsa2005ElectronicTI,
  title={Electronic transport in DNA.},
  author={Daphne Klotsa and Rudolf A. R{\"o}mer and Matthew S. Turner},
  journal={Biophysical journal},
  year={2005},
  volume={89 4},
  pages={
          2187-98
        }
}
We study the electronic properties of DNA by way of a tight-binding model applied to four particular DNA sequences. The charge transfer properties are presented in terms of localization lengths (crudely speaking, the length over which electrons travel). Various types of disorder, including random potentials, are employed to account for different real environments. We have performed calculations on poly(dG)-poly(dC), telomeric-DNA, random-ATGC DNA, and lambda-DNA. We find that random and lambda… 
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