- Macroscopic properties of DNA; packaging into chromatin (eukaryotes)
- Pray, L. Discovery of DNA Structure and Function: Watson and Crick. Nature Education 1, no. 1 (2008).
Microscopic structure of DNA; the four nucleotides; binding energies - Denaturation, hybridization (similarity); renaturation (zippering)
- (UV absorption) Melting curves for medium and long chains; general features and theoretical issues
- The pair-stacking model; (Poland, D., and H. A. Scheraga. Theory of Helix-Coil Transitions in Biopolymers. Academic Press, 1970.)
- Theoretical analysis of homopolymer denaturation (presentation by David Mukamel at ITP)