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Range-Limited Heaps' Law for Functional DNA Words in the Human Genome
Wentian Li, Yannis Almirantis, Astero Provata
Heaps' or Herdan's law is a linguistic law describing the relationship between the vocabulary/dictionary size (type) and word counts (token) to be a power-law function. Its existen…
Revisiting the Neutral Dynamics Derived Limiting Guanine-Cytosine Content Using the Human De Novo Point Mutation Data
Wentian Li, Yannis Almirantis, Astero Provata
We revisit the topic of human genome guanine-cytosine content under neutral evolution. For this study, the de novo mutation data within human is used to estimate mutational rate in…
Quantifying Local Randomness in Human DNA and RNA Sequences Using Erdos Motifs
Wentian Li, Dimitrios Thanos, Astero Provata
In 1932, Paul Erdos asked whether a random walk constructed from a binary sequence can achieve the lowest possible deviation (lowest discrepancy), for the sequence itself and for a…
DNA viewed as an out-of-equilibrium structure
A. Provata, C. Nicolis, G. Nicolis
The complexity of the primary structure of human DNA is explored using methods from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, dynamical systems theory and information theory. The use o…
Non-extensive Trends in the Size Distribution of Coding and Non-coding DNA Sequences in the Human Genome
Th. Oikonomou, A. Provata
We study the primary DNA structure of four of the most completely sequenced human chromosomes (including chromosome 19 which is the most dense in coding), using Non-extensive Stati…
Statistical analysis of Gene and Intergenic DNA Sequences
D. Kugiumtzis, A. Provata
Much of the on-going statistical analysis of DNA sequences is focused on the estimation of characteristics of coding and non-coding regions that would possibly allow discrimination…