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DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry (2009)
Journal Article
Grayson, N., Taormina, A., & Twarock, R. (2009). DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry. Theoretical Computer Science, 410(15), 1440-1447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2008.12.005

A construction method for duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry made out of single-stranded DNA molecules is presented and applied to an icosidodecahedral cage. It is shown via a mixture of analytic and computer techniques that there exist... Read More about DNA duplex cage structures with icosahedral symmetry.

Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: a top-down approach (2009)
Journal Article
Peeters, K., & Taormina, A. (2009). Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: a top-down approach. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 256(4), 607-624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.10.019

We explore the use of a top-down approach to analyse the dynamics of icosahedral virus capsids and complement the information obtained from bottom-up studies of viral vibrations available in the literature. A normal mode analysis based on protein ass... Read More about Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: a top-down approach.

Liouville Theory and Elliptic Genera (2009)
Journal Article
Taormina, A. (2009). Liouville Theory and Elliptic Genera. Progress of theoretical physics. Supplement, 177(Supplement 1), 203-217. https://doi.org/10.1143/ptps.177.203

The structure and modular properties of N = 4 superconformal characters are reviewed and exploited, in an attempt to construct elliptic genera-like functions by decompactifying K3. The construction is tested against expressions obtained in the contex... Read More about Liouville Theory and Elliptic Genera.