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Inverted Repeats in Viral Genomes
Rosario N. MantegnaM. SpanòSalvatore MiccichèFabrizio Lillosubject
Genomics (q-bio.GN)Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)Complex systemInverted repeatGeneral Mathematicsviral genomeGeneral Physics and AstronomyFOS: Physical sciencesComputational biologyBiologyGenomeQuantitative Biology - Quantitative MethodsSettore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali Ambientali Biol.e Medicin)stochastic processeViral genomesFOS: Biological sciencessecondary RNA struc- tureQuantitative Biology - GenomicsQuantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)Condensed Matter - Statistical MechanicsDNA probabilistic modelsdescription
We investigate 738 complete genomes of viruses to detect the presence of short inverted repeats. The number of inverted repeats found is compared with the prediction obtained for a Bernoullian and for a Markovian control model. We find as a statistical regularity that the number of observed inverted repeats is often greater than the one expected in terms of a Bernoullian or Markovian model in several of the viruses and in almost all those with a genome longer than 30,000 bp.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-10-05 |