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Codon and amino-acid distribution in DNA

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  • Kim, J.K.
  • Yang, S.I.
  • Kwon, Y.H.
  • Lee, E.I.

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According to the Zipf’s law, the distribution of rank-ordered frequency of words in the natural language can be modelled on the power law. In this paper, we examine the frequency distribution of 64 codons over the coding and non-coding regions of 88 DNA from EMBL and GenBank database, using exponential fitting. Also, we regard 20 amino-acids as vocabulary, perform the same frequency analysis to the same database and show that amino-acids can be used as biological meaningful words for Zipf’s approach. Our analysis suggests that a natural language structure may exist not only in the coding region of DNA but in the non-coding one of DNA.

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  • Kim, J.K. & Yang, S.I. & Kwon, Y.H. & Lee, E.I., 2005. "Codon and amino-acid distribution in DNA," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 23(5), pages 1795-1807.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:chsofr:v:23:y:2005:i:5:p:1795-1807
    DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2004.07.027
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    1. Kim, Jongkwang & Kim, Sowun & Lee, Kunsang & Kwon, Younghun, 2009. "Entropy analysis in yeast DNA," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 39(4), pages 1565-1571.
    2. Bhan, Jaemi & Kim, Sowoon & Kim, Jongkwang & Kwon, Younghun & Yang, Sung-il & Lee, Kunsang, 2006. "Long-range correlations in Korean literary corpora," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 29(1), pages 69-81.
    3. Jiménez-Montaño, M.A. & Coronel-Brizio, H.F. & Hernández-Montoya, A.R. & Ramos-Fernández, A., 2016. "Codon information value and codon transition-probability distributions in short-term evolution," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 454(C), pages 117-128.
    4. Ro, Wosuk & Kwon, Younghun, 2009. "1/f Noise analysis of songs in various genre of music," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 42(4), pages 2305-2311.

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