Mutation model for oligonucleotides fitting a Yule distribution
Biomolecules
2007-05-23 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Other Quantitative Biology
Abstract
A spin chain, describing a nucleotides sequence, is identified by the labels of a vector state of an irreducible representation of U_q->0(sl2). A master equation for the distribution function is written, where the intensity of the one-spin flip is assumed to depend on the variation of the labels. The numerically computed equilibrium distribution is nicely fitted by a Yule distribution, which is the observed distribution of the ranked short oligonucleotides frequency in DNA
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@article{arxiv.q-bio/0412006,
title = {Mutation model for oligonucleotides fitting a Yule distribution},
author = {C. Minichini and A. Sciarrino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0412006},
year = {2007}
}
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13 pages, 4 figures