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Factorial moments analyses show a characteristic length scale in DNA sequences
A K Mohanty1, A V Narayana Rao
1Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India.
Abstract:
A unique feature of most of the DNA sequences, found through the factorial moments analysis, is the existence of a characteristic length scale around which the density distribution is nearly Poissonian. Above this point, the DNA sequences, irrespective of their intron contents, show long range correlations with a significant deviation from the Gaussian statistics, while, below this point, the DNA statistics are essentially Gaussian. The famous DNA walk representation is also shown to be a special case of the present analysis.
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