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EXERCISE
Calculate the sterically allowed configurations as a function of the rotation
around the glycosidic bond for the four bases separately, using the minimum
contact distances between non-bounded atoms listed in Chapter 5. Try to
find the bond distances and bond angles for the ribose ring and A, C, G, T
from standard textbooks.
