STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF DNA-SEQUENCES
STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF DNA-SEQUENCES
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DOI:
10.1016/0378-4371(95)00247-5
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发表时间:
1995-11-15
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
STANLEY, HE
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作者:
PENG, CK;BULDYREV, SV;STANLEY, HE
We review evidence supporting the idea that the DNA sequence in genes containing non-coding regions is correlated, and that the correlation is remarkably long range - indeed, nucleotides thousands of base pairs distant are correlated. We do not find such a long-range correlation in the coding regions of the gene, We resolve the problem of the ''non-stationarity'' feature of the sequence of base pairs by applying a new algorithm called detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA). We address the claim of Voss that there is no difference in the statistical properties of coding and non-coding regions of DNA by systematically applying the DFA algorithm, as well as standard FFT analysis, to every DNA sequence (33 301 coding and 29 453 non-coding) in the entire GenBank database. Finally, we describe briefly some recent work showing that the noncoding sequences have certain statistical features in common with natural and artificial languages. Specifically, we adapt to DNA the Zipf approach to analyzing linguistic texts, These statistical properties of non-coding sequences support the possibility that non-coding regions of DNA may carry biological information.