In silico modelling of DNA nanostructures

The rise of material science and nanotechnology created a demand for a next generation of materials and procedures that can transcend the shaping of simple geometrical nano-objects. As a legacy of the technological progress made in the Human Genome Project, DNA was identified as a possible candidate. The low production costs of custom-made DNA molecules and the possibilities concerning the structural manipulation triggered significant advances in the field of DNA nanotechnology in the last decade. To facilitate the development of new DNA nanostructures and provide users an insight in less intuitive complexities and physical properties of the DNA folding, several in silico modelling tools were published. Here, we summarize the main characteristics of these specialised tools, describe the most common design principles and discuss tools and strategies used to predict the properties of DNA nanostructures.

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