Prediction of genomic properties and classification of life by protein length distributions

2008/06/02 by Dirson Jian Li, Shengli Zhang, Li, Dirson Jian +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #FOS: Biological sciences #Genomics (q-bio.GN) #Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM) #q-bio.GN #q-bio.QM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0806.0205

5 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2008/06/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Much evolutionary information is stored in the fluctuations of protein length distributions. The genome size and non-coding DNA content can be calculated based only on the protein length distributions. So there is intrinsic relationship between the coding DNA size and non-coding DNA size. According to the correlations and quasi-periodicity of protein length distributions, we can classify life into three domains. Strong evidences are found to support the order in the structures of protein length distributions.

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