Topological Entropy of DNA Sequences

Details Topological Entropy of DNA Sequences Topological Entropy of DNA Sequences

2011-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/1101.4636v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Quantitative Methods

16 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables

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Topological entropy has been one of the most difficult to implement of all the entropy-theoretic notions. This is primarily due to finite sample effects and high-dimensionality problems. In particular, topological entropy has been implemented in previous literature to conclude that entropy of exons is higher than of introns, thus implying that exons are more "random" than introns. We define a new approximation to topological entropy free from the aforementioned difficulties. We compute its expected value and apply this definition to the intron and exon regions of the human genome to observe that as expected, the entropy of introns are significantly higher than that of exons. Though we surprisingly find that introns are less random than expected: their entropy is lower than the computed expected value. We observe the perplexing phenomena that chromosome Y has atypically low and bi-modal entropy, possibly corresponding to random sequences (high entropy) and sequences that posses hidden structure or function (low entropy).

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