Contact maps and contact probability profiles for uniform linker length = 18 bp, uniform linker length = 27 bp, life-like, life-like with NFRs, and gene encodinglike fibers. Contact maps are determined by counting distances between any two fiber constituents (tail, core, or linker DNA bead) that are less than 2 nm. The 1D contact profiles are shown in the top right, indicating that long-range contacts (i± ≥ 7) are absent for short uniform linker length fibers but present for other systems. Gene-encoding like fibers show the least amount of long-range contacts. Contact matrices indicate that NFRs decrease local contacts along the diagonal, and gene-encoding like linker length distributions slightly decrease long-range (i± ≥ 7) contacts.