On the Existence of Scaling in DNA Sequences

A.A. Tsonis, J.B. Elsner, P.A. Tsonis

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 197(3), 1288--1295 (1993).

Abstract

A re-evaluation of the properties of the random walks generated from DNA sequences reveals that previously reported scaling (appropriate to either pure random walks or long-range correlations) cannot be justified. Thus our analysis cannot support the claim that different evolutionary categories exhibit different scaling.