2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to understanding nucleic acid structure, properties, and interactions, for leadership in developing important computational methods used to analyze and rebuild nucleic acid structures, and for pioneering theoretical investigations of DNA structure and supercoiling
1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1975 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Her main research concerns Crystallography, DNA, Base pair, Nucleic acid and Computational chemistry. Her research integrates issues of Chemical physics, Thermal fluctuations, Molecule and Folding in her study of Crystallography. Her DNA study deals with the bigger picture of Genetics.
Her studies in Base pair integrate themes in fields like DNA binding site, Twist, Structural biology, Stacking and Protein structure. Her Stacking research incorporates elements of Visualization and Protein Data Bank. Her Nucleic acid study incorporates themes from Algorithm, Base sequence and Atomic coordinates.
Wilma K. Olson mainly focuses on DNA, Crystallography, Base pair, DNA supercoil and Nucleosome. The various areas that Wilma K. Olson examines in her DNA study include Chemical physics, Biophysics and Computational biology. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Chain, Polynucleotide, Molecule and Nucleic acid.
Her research integrates issues of Biological system and Stereochemistry in her study of Nucleic acid. Her Base pair study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as RNA, Minicircle, Stacking and Energy minimization. The concepts of her DNA supercoil study are interwoven with issues in Twist, Classical mechanics, Linking number, Elastic energy and A-DNA.
Her primary areas of investigation include DNA, Chromatin, Biophysics, Nucleosome and Genetics. Base pair and Minicircle are among the areas of DNA where she concentrates her study. Her Base pair study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Cytosine, Elastic energy, Nucleic acid and RNA.
Her studies deal with areas such as Solenoid, ChIP-sequencing and Folding, Biochemistry as well as Biophysics. In Nucleosome, Wilma K. Olson works on issues like Database, which are connected to Protein secondary structure. Her Histone research incorporates themes from Molecular dynamics, Crystallography, Theoretical physics, Potential energy and Curvature.
Wilma K. Olson mainly focuses on DNA, Genetics, Computational biology, Chromatin and Base pair. Her work deals with themes such as Biophysics and Molecular dynamics, which intersect with DNA. As a part of the same scientific family, she mostly works in the field of Genetics, focusing on Folding and, on occasion, Sequence and DNA Folding.
The study incorporates disciplines such as DNA supercoil, HMG-box and Genome in addition to Computational biology. Her Base pair study combines topics in areas such as DNA binding site, Stacking, Nucleic acid and Protein–DNA interaction. Her work investigates the relationship between Stacking and topics such as Protein Data Bank that intersect with problems in RNA.
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3DNA: a software package for the analysis, rebuilding and visualization of three‐dimensional nucleic acid structures
Xiang Jun Lu;Wilma K. Olson.
Nucleic Acids Research (2003)
DNA sequence-dependent deformability deduced from protein–DNA crystal complexes
Wilma K. Olson;Andrey A. Gorin;Xiang-Jun Lu;Lynette M. Hock.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1998)
The nucleic acid database. A comprehensive relational database of three-dimensional structures of nucleic acids
H.M. Berman;W.K. Olson;D.L. Beveridge;J. Westbrook.
Biophysical Journal (1992)
A standard reference frame for the description of nucleic acid base-pair geometry
Wilma K Olson;Manju Bansal;Stephen K Burley;Richard E Dickerson.
Journal of Molecular Biology (2001)
3DNA: a versatile, integrated software system for the analysis, rebuilding and visualization of three-dimensional nucleic-acid structures.
Xiang-Jun Lu;Xiang-Jun Lu;Wilma K Olson.
Nature Protocols (2008)
B-DNA Twisting Correlates with Base-pair Morphology
A A Gorin;V B Zhurkin;V B Zhurkin;W K Olson.
Journal of Molecular Biology (1995)
A-form conformational motifs in ligand-bound DNA structures.
Xiang Jun Lu;Zippora Shakked;Wilma K. Olson.
Journal of Molecular Biology (2000)
Web 3DNA—a web server for the analysis, reconstruction, and visualization of three-dimensional nucleic-acid structures
Guohui Zheng;Xiang-Jun Lu;Wilma K. Olson.
Nucleic Acids Research (2009)
Geometric Parameters in Nucleic Acids: Sugar and Phosphate Constituents
Anke Gelbin;Bohdan Schneider;Lester Clowney;Shu Hsin Hsieh.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1996)
Quasi-harmonic method for studying very low frequency modes in proteins
R. M. Levy;A. R. Srinivasan;W. K. Olson;J. A. McCammon.
Biopolymers (1984)
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