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 # Topo2 implementation into LAMMPS with external code
 
-We model a torsionally relaxed (nicked) DNA plasmid 3.6 kbp-long as a bead-spring polymer made of 500 beads with size σ = 2.5nm = 7.3 bp and connected by finitely extensible springs and persistence length lp = 50 nm. Beads interact via a purely
+We model a torsionally relaxed (nicked) DNA plasmid 7.2 kbp-long as a bead-spring polymer made of 1000 beads with bead-size σ=2.5 nm=7.3 bp and connected by finitely extensible springs and persistence length lp = 50 nm. Beads interact via a purely
 steric Lennard-Jones repulsion while the TopoII-bound segment is modelled as a 50 beads (L = 360 bp)-long segment displaying soft interactions with the other beads thereby allowing the TopoII-bound segment to undergo strand-crossing with a small energy penalty (2 kB T)
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