2005/01/10 by Michael G. Sadovsky, Sadovsky, Michael G.
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biomolecules (q-bio.BM) #FOS: Biological sciences #Fractal and DNA sequence analysis #Genomics (q-bio.GN) #Machine Learning in Bioinformatics #RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms #q-bio.BM #q-bio.GN
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0501011
12 pages, no figures, two-column, 10 pt
arxiv created 2005/01/10 · openalex publication_date 2005/01/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Information capacity of a symbol sequence is a measure of the unexpectedness of a continuation of given string of symbols. Continuation of a string is determined through the maximum entropy of the reconstructed frequency dictionary; the capacity, in turn, is determined through the calculation of mutual entropy of a real frequency dictionary of a sequence with respect to the reconstructed one. The capacity does not depend on the length of strings in a dictionary. The capacity calculated for various genomes exhibits a multi-minima pattern reflecting an order observed within a sequence.