Multifractal information production of the human genome
Statistical Mechanics
2015-05-20 v1 Chaotic Dynamics
Biological Physics
Genomics
Abstract
We determine the Renyi entropies K_q of symbol sequences generated by human chromosomes. These exhibit nontrivial behaviour as a function of the scanning parameter q. In the thermodynamic formalism, there are phase transition-like phenomena close to the q=1 region. We develop a theoretical model for this based on the superposition of two multifractal sets, which can be associated with the different statistical properties of coding and non-coding DNA sequences. This model is in good agreement with the human chromosome data.
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@article{arxiv.1011.3449,
title = {Multifractal information production of the human genome},
author = {Christian Beck and Astero Provata},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3449},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures