Three-quasiperiodicity, Mutual Correlations, Ordering and Long-Range
Modulations in Genomic Nucleotide Sequences for Viruses
V.R. Chechetkin, L.A. Knizhnikova, A. Yu Turygin
Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics,
12(2), 271--299 (1994)
Abstract
Using Fourier transform, we investigate the structural characteristics of genomes for several viruses.
The mutual correlations and ordering of the different nucleotides in genomes are compared versus their
counterparts from the random sequences with the same nucleotide composition. In order to assess the stastical
significance of correlations and ordering we introduce the expression for structural entropy of a sequence and
derive the corresponding analytical criteria. The method specially aimed at the investigation of the long-range
correlations is described as well and the relationship between the long-range correlations and the modulations
of three-quasiperiodicity is discussed.
