Fig 5. Relaxation times of chain conformations.

(A) Time evolution of the root mean square distance between a pair of loci r_i,j(t) at time t relative to its initial value (r_i,j(0)) averaged over all pairs, defined by δ(t) = [2∑_i>j(r_i,j(t) − r_i,j(0))²/N(N − 1)]^1/2. (B) Normalized intermediate scattering function F_k(t)/F_k(0), with different values of wave number k, were calculated from BD simulation trajectories of the chromosome. (C) The chain relaxation time (τ) for different wave number k was estimated by evaluating ${\tau }_k={\int }_0^{\infty }[F_k\left(t\right)/F_k\left(0\right)]dt$.