2 papers
q-bio.GN2007
Genomes: at the edge of chaos with maximum information capacity
Sing-Guan Kong, Hong-Da Chen, Wen-Lang Fan +3
We propose an order index, phi, which quantifies the notion of ``life at the edge of chaos'' when applied to genome sequences. It maps genomes to a number from 0 (random and of inf…
physics.bio-ph2003
Evidence for growth of microbial genomes by short segmental duplications
Li-Ching Hsieh, Liaofu Luo, HC Lee
We show that textual analysis of microbial genomes reveal telling footprints of the early evolution of the genomes. The frequencies of word occurrence of random DNA sequences consi…