DNA	deoxyribonucleic acid
bp	base-pair
FJC model	freely-jointed chain model
WLC model	worm-like chain model
sc-B, sc-L and sc-P	supercoiled B-, L- and P-DNA, respectively
B-to-L, B-to-P, B-to-S and L-to-S	structural transitions between the corresponding DNA states (B, L, P and S)