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Quasispecies distribution of Eigen model

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study sharp peak landscapes (SPL) of Eigen model from a new perspective about how the quasispecies distribute in the sequence space. To analyze the distribution more carefully, we bring forth two tools. One tool is the variance of Hamming distance of the sequences at a given generation. It not only offers us a different avenue for accurately locating the error threshold and illustrates how the configuration of the distribution varies with copying fidelity qq in the sequence space, but also divides the copying fidelity into three distinct regimes. The other tool is the similarity network of a certain Hamming distance d0d_{0}, by which we can get a visual and in-depth result about how the sequences distribute. We find that there are several local optima around the center (global optimum) in the distribution of the sequences reproduced near the threshold. Furthermore, it is interesting that the distribution of clustering coefficient C(k)C(k) follows lognormal distribution and the curve of clustering coefficient CC of the network versus d0d_{0} appears as linear behavior near the threshold.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0608330,
  title  = {Quasispecies distribution of Eigen model},
  author = {Jia Chen and Sheng Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0608330},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, 6 figures

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