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View SchemaMultifractal characterisation of length sequences of coding and noncoding segments in a complete genome
| Authors | Zu-Guo Yu, Vo Anh, Ka-Sing Lau |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0108053 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0108053 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00391-0 |
| Journal | Physica A, vol 301, (2001) 351-361 |
Abstract
The coding and noncoding length sequences constructed from a complete genome are characterised by multifractal analysis. The dimension spectrum $D_{q}$ and its derivative, the 'analogous' specific heat $C_{q}$, are calculated for the coding and noncoding length sequences of bacteria, where $q$ is the moment order of the partition sum of the sequences. From the shape of the $% D_{q}$ and $C_{q}$ curves, it is seen that there exists a clear difference between the coding/noncoding length sequences of all organisms considered and a completely random sequence. The complexity of noncoding length sequences is higher than that of coding length sequences for bacteria. Almost all $D_{q}$ curves for coding length sequences are flat, so their multifractality is small whereas almost all $D_{q}$ curves for noncoding length sequences are multifractal-like. We propose to characterise the bacteria according to the types of the $C_{q}$ curves of their noncoding length sequences.
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"doi": "10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00391-0",
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"title": "Multifractal characterisation of length sequences of coding and noncoding segments in a complete genome",
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