Codon Distributions in DNA
Biological Physics
2009-11-07 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
q-bio
Abstract
The codons, sixtyfour in number, are distributed over the coding parts of DNA sequences. The distribution function is the plot of frequency-versus-rank of the codons. These distributions are characterised by parameters that are almost universal, i.e., gene independent. There is but a small part that depends on the gene. We present the theory to calculate the universal (gene-independent) part. The part that is gene-specific, however, has undetermined overlaps and fluctuations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0102021,
title = {Codon Distributions in DNA},
author = {A. Som and S. Chattopadhyay and J. Chakrabarti and D. Bandyopadhyay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0102021},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
31 pages, 5 figures