2017/03/01 by A. Sciarrino, Sciarrino, A.
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph) #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Fractal and DNA sequence analysis #Machine Learning in Bioinformatics #Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT) #RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.soft #physics.bio-ph #q-bio.OT
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.00445
21 pages, 10 figures
arxiv created 2017/03/01 · openalex publication_date 2017/03/01 · arxiv updated 2017/03/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A mathematical algorithm to describe DNA or RNA sequences of N nucleotides by a string of 2N integers numbers is presented in the framework of the so called crystal basis model of the genetic code. The description allows to define a not trivial distance between two sequences and to perform the Discrete Fourier Transform on a sequence. Using the definition of distance the sequence of β-globin for Homo, Gallus and Opossum are compared. The Discrete Fourier Transform for some simple examples is computed.