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Ultrametrics in the genetic code and the genome

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Abstract

Ultrametric approach to the genetic code and the genome is considered and developed. pp-Adic degeneracy of the genetic code is pointed out. Ultrametric tree of the codon space is presented. It is shown that codons and amino acids can be treated as pp-adic ultrametric networks. Ultrametric modification of the Hamming distance is defined and noted how it can be useful. Ultrametric approach with pp-adic distance is an attractive and promising trend towards investigation of bioinformation.

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@article{arxiv.1704.04194,
  title  = {Ultrametrics in the genetic code and the genome},
  author = {Branko Dragovich and Andrei Yu. Khrennikov and Nataša Ž. Mišić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04194},
  year   = {2017}
}

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20 pages. Accepted for publication in Applied Mathematics and Computation

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