Conspiracy in bacterial genomes
Abstract
The rank ordered distribution of the codon usage frequencies for 123 bacteriae is best fitted by a three parameters function that is the sum of a constant, an exponential and a linear term in the rank n. The parameters depend (two parabolically) from the total GC content. The rank ordered distribution of the amino acids is fitted by a straight line. The Shannon entropy computed over all the codons is well fitted by a parabola in the GC content, while the partial entropies computed over subsets of the codons show peculiar different behavior, exhibiting therefore a first conspiracy effect. Moreover the sum of the codon usage frequencies over particular sets, e.g. with C and A (respectively G and U) as i-th nucleotide, shows a clear linear dependence from the GC content, exhibiting another conspiracy effect.
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@article{arxiv.q-bio/0507030,
title = {Conspiracy in bacterial genomes},
author = {Luc Frappat and Antonino Sciarrino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0507030},
year = {2009}
}
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revised version: introduction and conclusion enhanced, references added, figures added, some tables removed