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- Title
A Gibbs Approach to Chargaff's Second Parity Rule.
- Authors
Hart, Andrew; Martínez, Servet; Olmos, Felipe
- Abstract
Chargaff's second parity rule (CSPR) asserts that the frequencies of short polynucleotide chains are the same as those of the complementary reversed chains. Up to now, this hypothesis has only been observed empirically and there is currently no explanation for its presence in DNA strands. Here we argue that CSPR is a probabilistic consequence of the reverse complementarity between paired strands, because the Gibbs distribution associated with the chemical energy between the bonds satisfies CSPR. We develop a statistical test to study the validity of CSPR under the Gibbsian assumption and we apply it to a large set of bacterial genomes taken from the GenBank repository.
- Subjects
GIBBS phenomenon; PHASE equilibrium; GENOMES; DNA; NUCLEIC acids
- Publication
Journal of Statistical Physics, 2012, Vol 146, Issue 2, p408
- ISSN
0022-4715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10955-011-0377-6