Comparison of Compression-Based Measures with Application to the Evolution of Primate Genomes

An efficient DNA compressor furnishes an approximation to measure and compare information quantities present in, between and across DNA sequences, regardless of the characteristics of the sources. In this paper, we compare directly two information measures, the Normalized Compression Distance (NCD)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Diogo Pratas, Raquel M. Silva, Armando J. Pinho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-05-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
NCD
NRC
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/6/393