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  • Genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology

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  • Genomic sequencing technologies are advancing rapidly, increasing the need for efficient sequence analysis.
  • Existing methods struggle with long, variable-length sequences and large datasets.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel encoding method, the Energy Entropy Vector (EEV), to address limitations in current gene sequence analysis.
  • To improve accuracy and efficiency in large-scale genomic analysis and evolutionary research.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the Energy Entropy Vector (EEV) method to encode gene sequences into fixed-dimensional vectors.
  • Modeled nucleotide energy characteristics using information entropy.
  • Applied EEV to five microbial datasets for classification and phylogenetic tree construction.

Main Results:

  • EEV achieved higher accuracy (15-30% improvement in family-level classification) in classification tasks compared to traditional alignment-free methods.
  • EEV significantly accelerated phylogenetic tree construction while maintaining high tree quality.
  • EEV demonstrated flexible dimensional expansion and alleviated sparsity issues in high-dimensional representations.

Conclusions:

  • EEV offers an efficient and accurate gene encoding strategy for large-scale genomic analysis.
  • The method enhances capabilities for evolutionary research and phylogenetic reconstruction.
  • EEV overcomes challenges posed by sequence length variability and dataset size.