Table 5.
Melting temperatures of testing sequences. Experimental melting temperatures were taken from Refs. 52, 53. The absolute average deviation for the testing data set was 5.8 K with a maximum absolute deviation of 14 K. Data shown visually as red squares in Figure 7.
| Length | [Na+] | [Mg2 +] | Tm,expt. | Tm,sim. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sequence | (bp) | (mM) | (mM) | (K) | (K) | %error |
| SEQ06 | 15 | 55 | 50 | 341.3a | 341 ± 2 | 0.1 |
| SEQ07 | 15 | 55 | 0 | 322.7a | 325 ± 3 | 0.8 |
| SEQ07 | 15 | 55 | 20 | 332.0a | 333 ± 2 | 0.3 |
| SEQ10 | 15 | 69 | 0 | 311.3b | 312 ± 2 | 0.3 |
| SEQ10 | 15 | 119 | 0 | 314.6b | 311 ± 1 | 1.1 |
| SEQ11 | 15 | 69 | 0 | 319.7b | 323 ± 1 | 1.2 |
| SEQ12 | 15 | 69 | 0 | 324.5b | 336 ± 4 | 3.5 |
| SEQ12 | 15 | 119 | 0 | 328.4b | 336 ± 2 | 2.4 |
| SEQ12 | 15 | 220 | 0 | 331.7b | 343 ± 1 | 3.3 |
| SEQ13 | 15 | 69 | 0 | 338.1b | 348 ± 1 | 2.9 |
| SEQ13 | 15 | 119 | 0 | 340.9b | 345 ± 3 | 1.1 |
| SEQ14 | 20 | 119 | 0 | 333.0b | 319 ± 3 | 4.1 |