Supercoiling
- Date:
- 1968-1981
- Reference:
- PP/CRI/H/6/12
- Part of:
- Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
A group of papers and correspondence, maintained by Crick as a working set of documents, concerning the phenomenon of supercoiling, in which the DNA double helix follows an axis that is typically curved.
Understanding of this phenomenon was enabled by concepts from geometry and topology, particularly the three descriptors: linking, twisting, and writhing.
Publication/Creation
1968-1981
Physical description
7 files
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.