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Best rational approximations of an irrational number
Jean-Louis Sikorav
The concept of nearest integer is used to derive theorems and algorithms for the best approximations of an irrational by rational numbers, which are improved with the pigeonhole pr…
Foundations of biology
Jean-Louis Sikorav, Alan Braslau, Arach Goldar
It is often stated that there are no laws in biology, where everything is contingent and could have been otherwise, being solely the result of historical accidents. Furthermore, th…
DNA adsorption at liquid/solid interfaces
Carine Douarche, Robert Cortès, Steven J. Roser +2
DNA adsorption on solid or liquid surfaces is a topic of broad fundamental and applied interest. Here we study by x-ray reflectivity the adsorption of monodisperse double-stranded…
Mechanism of thermal renaturation and hybridization of nucleic acids: Kramers process and universality in Watson-Crick base pairing
Jean-Louis Sikorav, Henri Orland, Alan Braslau
Renaturation and hybridization reactions lead to the pairing of complementary single-stranded nucleic acids. We present here a theoretical investigation of the mechanism of these r…
DNA Renaturation at the Water-Phenol Interface
Arach Goldar, Jean-Louis Sikorav
We study DNA adsorption and renaturation in a water-phenol two-phase system, with or without shaking. In very dilute solutions, single-stranded DNA is adsorbed at the interface in…