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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Abstract and Applied Analysis |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/439089 |