Table 3.

Characteristics of the six new conformational classes found by clustering

Class ID	Description	N	δ	ϵ	ζ	α + 1	β + 1	γ + 1	δ + 1	χ	χ + 1
35	BI-to-A, β+1 in g+, α+1/γ+1 crank (high t/t), anti/low anti	14	136	199	288	253	73	168	87	264	187
97	BII-DNA, α+1/γ+1 crank(t/g+), anti/low anti	13	142	294	110	149	198	55	151	260	185
113	BI-DNA, ϵ/ζ in t/g+, α+1/γ+1 crank (g+/t), anti/syn	13	143	206	61	82	204	192	146	242	68
114	BI-DNA, α+1/γ+1 crank (g-/g-), high β+1, anti/syn	18	141	201	282	307	258	304	151	236	65
115	BI DNA, high ϵ, anti/low anti	22	140	275	280	300	189	61	148	265	208
117	BI-DNA, β+1 in g+, α+1/γ+1 crank (high t/t), anti/low anti	19	139	196	286	249	73	172	145	263	211

“Class ID” is a symbolic label of the class. “Description” is a short annotation of the class. “N” is the number of suites (dinucleotides) with the given class membership. Values of torsions represent the arithmetic means for the individual classes. Torsions are defined in Figure 2.