A Gibbs approach to Chargaff's second parity rule

Details A Gibbs approach to Chargaff's second parity rule A Gibbs approach to Chargaff's second parity rule

2011-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/1105.0685v1

J. Statist. Phys. 146(2), 408-422, 2012

Mathematics

Probability

16 pages

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10955-011-0377-6

Chargaff's second parity rule (CSPR) asserts that the frequencies of short polynucleotide chains are the same as those of the complementary reversed chains. Up to now, this hypothesis has only been observed empirically and there is currently no explanation for its presence in DNA strands. Here we argue that CSPR is a probabilistic consequence of the reverse complementarity between paired strands, because the Gibbs distribution associated with the chemical energy between the bonds satisfies CSPR. We develop a statistical test to study the validity of CSPR under the Gibbsian assumption and we apply it to a large set of bacterial genomes taken from the GenBank repository.

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