Di-nucleotide Entropy as a Measure of Genomic Sequence Functionality

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2006-11-17

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0611059v3

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Genomics

10 pages, 7 figures, grammatical revision

Scientific paper

Considering vast amounts of genomic sequences of mostly unknown functionality, in-silico prediction of functional regions is an important enterprise. Many genomic browsers employ GC content, which was observed to be elevated in gene-rich functional regions. This report shows that the entropy of di- and tri-nucleotides distributions provides a superior measure of genomic sequence functionality, and proposes an explanation on why the GC content must be elevated (closer to 50%) in functional regions. Regions with high entropy strongly co-localize with exons and provide genome-wide evidences of purifying selection acting on non-coding regions, such as decreased SNPs density. The observations suggest that functional non-coding regions are optimised for mutation load in a way, that transition mutations have less impact on functionality than transversions, leading to the decrease in transversions to transitions ratio in functional regions.

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