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Information Capacity of Biological Macromoleculae Reloaded

Genomics 2007-05-23 v1 Biomolecules

Abstract

Information capacity of a symbol sequence is a measure of the unexpectedness of a continuation of given string of symbols. Continuation of a string is determined through the maximum entropy of the reconstructed frequency dictionary; the capacity, in turn, is determined through the calculation of mutual entropy of a real frequency dictionary of a sequence with respect to the reconstructed one. The capacity does not depend on the length of strings in a dictionary. The capacity calculated for various genomes exhibits a multi-minima pattern reflecting an order observed within a sequence.

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@article{arxiv.q-bio/0501011,
  title  = {Information Capacity of Biological Macromoleculae Reloaded},
  author = {Michael G. Sadovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0501011},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages, no figures, two-column, 10 pt