Fig. 3: The procedure for estimating the base-pair separation speed.
From: Proton transfer during DNA strand separation as a source of mutagenic guanine-cytosine tautomers
a Demonstrating a separation event during a 200 ps molecular dynamics simulation on the time series of the base-pair separation (blue solid line). The inset figure includes a linear line of best fit (orange solid line) of the separation event to determine the speed. b The arithmetic mean and standard error of separation speeds for a range of forces taken from a sample of 210 molecular dynamics simulations containing n = 1442 separation events for base pair G1–C1 (blue error bars joined by blue dashed line) and for base pair G2-C2 (orange error bars joined by orange dashed line).
