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Being asked to give the final talk at a conference such as this is both an honor and a formidable task. After three days of intensive exchange of ideas, the audience is verging on battle fatigue; thinking of the undone tasks waiting at home, and of the possibility of missing the shuttle service to the Mobile or Pensacola airports. The problem under such circumstances is not one of knowing what to say, but how to make it interesting. It would not be very interesting to use the talk merely as a platform for my own latest results, nor to give a four minute potted summary of each of the previous speakers’ talks. Instead, I am going to use my allotted time (and no more) to say a little about where I think we stand today on DNA structure and where we should be going.
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Dickerson, R.E. (1988). Usual and Unusual DNA Structures: A Summing-Up. In: Wells, R.D., Harvey, S.C. (eds) Unusual DNA Structures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3800-3_17
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