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Anisotropy in fitness landscapes
1Institut für Theoretische Chemie, Universität Wien, Austria.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
|December 7, 1993
Abstract:
A definition of empirical anisotropy is proposed, which allows for a quantitative measurement. This theory is applied to RNA free energy landscapes. It is shown that the biophysical GCAU landscapes are highly anisotropic, while the synthetic GCXK landscapes become isotropic for long chains. The major part of the anisotropy of the GCAU landscapes arises from the difference of the G identical to C and the A = U stacking parameters.