TABLE 1.

Comparison of the simulated and experimental knot lengths and diffusion coefficients

Knot type	Total length of simulated trajectories (ms)	Knot length, simulated (μm)	Knot length, experimental (μm)	Computed diffusion coefficient (μm2/s)	Measured diffusion coefficient (μm2/s)
31	222	0.20 ± 0.01	0.25 ± 0.02	8.6 ± 1	12.5 ± 0.5
41	237	0.26 ± 0.01	0.38 ± 0.03	6.0 ± 1	7.9 ± 0.3
71	165	0.46 ± 0.01	0.56 ± 0.03	2.5 ± 0.3	4.8 ± 0.2

The experimentally measured values were taken from Fig. 2a of Bao et al. (15) and adjusted to the water viscosity according to a personal communication with S. R. Quake (Stanford University, 2005).