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Snapshots from simulations of ssDNA shortly after its initialization as a comb (bottom) and in the relaxed state (top). An example of the sugar-phosphate-sugar (SPS) angle is depicted; this puckering shortens the apparent contour length of the relaxed molecule (top), measured from sugar to sugar, when compared to the completely extended state (bottom and Fig. 1).
