Biology – Quantitative Biology – Genomics
Scientific paper
2010-04-22
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Genomics
19 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
Sequence organizations are viewed from two points: one is from informational redundancy or informational correlation (IC) and another is from k-mer frequency statistics. Two problems are investigated. The first is how the ICs exceed the fluctuation bound and the order emerges from fluctuation in a genome when the sequence length attains some critical value. We demonstrated that the transition from fluctuation to order takes place at about sequence length 200-300 thousands bases for human and E coli genome. It means that the life emerges from a region between macroscopic and microscopic. The second is about the statistical law of the k-mer organization in a genome under the evolutionary pressure and functional selection. We deduced a sum rule Q(k,N) on the k-mer frequency deviations from the randomness in a N-long sequence of genome and deduced the relations of Q(k,N) with k and N. We found that Q(k,N) increases with length N at a constant rate for most genome sequences and demonstrated that when the functional selection of k-mers is accumulated to some critical value the ordering takes place. An important finding is the sum rule correlated with the evolutionary complexity of the genome.
Gao Yang
Lu Jun
Luo Liaofu
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