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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
The study of correlation structures in DNA sequences is of great interest because it allows us to obtain structural and functional information about underlying genetic mechanisms. In this paper we present a study of the correlation structure of protein coding sequences of DNA based on a recently developed mathematical representation of the genetic code. A fundamental consequence of such representation is that codons can be assigned a parity class (odd-even). Such parity can be obtained by means of a nonlinear algorithm acting on the chemical character of the codon bases. In the same setting the Rumer’s class can be naturally described and a new dichotomic class, the hidden class, can be defined. Moreover, we show that the set of DNA’s base transformations associated to the three dichotomic classes can be put in a compact group-theoretic framework. We use the dichotomic classes as a coding scheme for …
Publisher: 
American Physical Society
Publication date: 
19 Nov 2008
Authors: 

Diego Luis Gonzalez, Simone Giannerini, Rodolfo Rosa

Biblio References: 
Volume: 78 Issue: 5 Pages: 051918
Origin: 
Physical review E