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Flipping Watson and Crick

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Watson–Crick base pairs underpin the DNA double helix. Evidence of transient changes in base-pairing geometry highlights the fact that the information held in DNA's linear sequence is stored in three dimensions. See Article p.498

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Figure 1: Hoogsteen and Watson–Crick base pairing.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Barry Honig is at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA.,

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  2. Department of Biological Sciences, Remo Rohs is in the Molecular and Computational Biology Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA.,

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