Shannon Information and Power Law Analysis of the Chromosome Code
This paper studies the information content of the chromosomes of twenty-three species. Several statistics considering different number of bases for alphabet character encoding are derived. Based on the resulting histograms, word delimiters and character relative frequencies are identified. The knowl...
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| description | This paper studies the information content of the chromosomes of twenty-three species. Several statistics considering different number of bases for alphabet character encoding are derived. Based on the resulting histograms, word delimiters and character relative frequencies are identified. The knowledge of this data allows moving along each chromosome while evaluating the flow of characters and words. The resulting flux of information is captured by means of Shannon entropy. The results are explored in the perspective of power law relationships allowing a quantitative evaluation of the DNA of the species. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2355b4089f1c4adf8a266f8061274e7b2025-02-03T01:32:58ZengWileyAbstract and Applied Analysis1085-33751687-04092012-01-01201210.1155/2012/439089439089Shannon Information and Power Law Analysis of the Chromosome CodeJ. A. Tenreiro Machado0Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering of Polytechnic of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, PortugalThis paper studies the information content of the chromosomes of twenty-three species. Several statistics considering different number of bases for alphabet character encoding are derived. Based on the resulting histograms, word delimiters and character relative frequencies are identified. The knowledge of this data allows moving along each chromosome while evaluating the flow of characters and words. The resulting flux of information is captured by means of Shannon entropy. The results are explored in the perspective of power law relationships allowing a quantitative evaluation of the DNA of the species.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/439089 |
| spellingShingle | J. A. Tenreiro Machado Shannon Information and Power Law Analysis of the Chromosome Code Abstract and Applied Analysis |
| title | Shannon Information and Power Law Analysis of the Chromosome Code |
| title_full | Shannon Information and Power Law Analysis of the Chromosome Code |
| title_fullStr | Shannon Information and Power Law Analysis of the Chromosome Code |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shannon Information and Power Law Analysis of the Chromosome Code |
| title_short | Shannon Information and Power Law Analysis of the Chromosome Code |
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