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Using Phylogenetic Analysis to Investigate Eukaryotic Gene Origin
Published on: August 14, 2018
Mutual information content of homologous DNA sequences
Helena Cristina G Leitão1, Luciana S Pessôa, Jorge Stolfi
1Instituto de Computação, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. hcgl@ic.uff.br
Abstract:
The necessary information to reproduce and keep an organism is codified in acid nucleic molecules. Deepening the knowledge about how the information is stored in these bio-sequences can lead to more efficient methods of comparing genomic sequences. In the present study, we analyzed the quantity of information contained in a DNA sequence that can be useful to identify sequences homologous to it. To reach it, we used signal processing techniques, specially spectral analysis and information theory.
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