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An Integrated Approach for Microprotein Identification and Sequence Analysis
Published on: July 12, 2022
Primary sequences of proteins from complete genomes display a singular periodicity: Alignment-free N-gram analysis
Jan P Radomski1, Piotr P Slonimski
1Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, Warsaw University, Pawińskiego 5A, Bldg. D, 02106 Warsaw, Poland. janr@icm.edu.pl
Abstract:
A method is proposed to represent and to analyze complete genome sequences (52 species from procaryotes and eukaryotes), based upon n-gram sequence's frequencies of amino acid pairs (bigrams), separated by a given number of other residues. For each of the species analyzed, it allows us to construct over-abundant and over-deficient occurrence profiles, summarizing amino acid bigram frequencies over the entire genome. The method deals efficiently with a sparseness of statistical representations of individual sequences, and describes every gene sequence in the same way, independently of its length and of the genome sizes. The frequency of over-abundant and over-deficient occurrences of bigrams presents a singular periodicity around 3.5 peptide bonds, suggesting a relation with the alpha helical secondary structure.
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