Fig. 3. The mean RMSD for all non-hydrogen nucleic atoms compared to the X-ray crystal structure (1BNA from the Protein Data Bank⁵²) at various electric field strengths and directions. Each point is the average RMSD of ten, 10 ns, all-atom MD replicas; the error bars represent the standard deviation. The mean RMSD in the presence of the electric fields is well within the boundary of error associated with the RMSD in the absence of the electric field.