Ultrametrics in the genetic code and the genome

Abstract

Ultrametric approach to the genetic code and the genome is considered and developed. $p$-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 $p$-adic ultrametric networks. Ultrametric modification of the Hamming distance is defined and noted how it can be useful. Ultrametric approach with $p$-adic distance is an attractive and promising trend towards investigation of bioinformation.

20 pages. Accepted for publication in Applied Mathematics and Computation

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