Issue |
EPL
Volume 98, Number 2, April 2012
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Article Number | 28002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/28002 | |
Published online | 25 April 2012 |
Dipole angular entropy techniques for intron-exon segregation in DNA
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi - Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India
a
eez107514@iitd.ac.in
b
rbose@ee.iitd.ac.in
Received:
16
October
2011
Accepted:
20
March
2012
We propose techniques for computing the angular entropies of DNA sequences, based on the orientations of the dipole moments of the nucleotide bases. The angles of the dipole moment vectors of the bases are used to compute the dipole angular entropy and the Fourier harmonics of the angles are used to compute the dipole angular spectral entropy for a given sequence. We also show that the coding (exons) and noncoding (introns) regions of the DNA can be segregated based on their dipole angular entropies and dipole angular spectral entropies. Segregation using these techniques is found to be computationally faster and more accurate than the previously reported methods. The proposed techniques can also be improvised to use the magnitude of the dipole moments of the bases in addition to the angles.
PACS: 89.70.Cf – Entropy and other measures of information / 87.14.gk – DNA
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