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Wentian Li, Thomas G Marr,
Kunihiko Kaneko (1994),
"Understanding long-range correlations in DNA sequences",
Physica D (Nonlinearity), 75:392-416;
erratum: Physica D, 82:217 (1995).
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Wentian Li,
Kunihiko Kaneko (1992),
"DNA correlations (scientific correspondence)",
Nature, 360:635-636.
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Wentian Li,
Kunihiko Kaneko (1992),
"Long-range correlation and partial 1/f spectrum in a non-coding DNA sequence",
Europhysics Letters, 17(7):655-660.
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(see, also, a "research news" piece from the Science magazine: I Amato, ``DNA shows unexplained patterns writ large", Science, 257(5071):747 ) -
Wentian Li (1992),
"Generating non-trivial long-range correlations and 1/f spectra by replication and mutation",
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2(1):137-154.
[abstract] [ "figure-less" PDF ] [ citation via google]Genetic Analysis
Wentian Li, Michael Q Zhang, Thomas G Marr (1994, unpublished),
"The statistical distribution of the length of DNA segments that are identical-by-descent using a single crossover model",
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory preprint.
[preprint (PDF)]Wentian Li, Thomas G Marr (1994, unpublished),
"Numerical studies of size distribution of unconditional and conditional transmitted and identical-by-descent DNA segments in pedigrees in multi-crossover models",
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory preprint.
[preprint (PDF)]1/f (One-Over-F) Noise
Wentian Li (1991),
"Expansion-modification systems and spatial 1/f spectra",
in Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Noise in Physical Systems and 1/f Fluctuations, eds. T Musha, S Sato, and M Yamamoto, pp. 519-522 (Ohmsha, 1991). -
Wentian Li (1991),
"Expansion-modification systems: a model for spatial 1/f spectra",
Physical Review A, 43(10):5240-5260.
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Wentian Li (1991),
"Absence of 1/f spectra in Dow Jones daily average",
International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 1(3):583-597.
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Wentian Li (1989),
"Spatial 1/f spectra in open dynamical systems",
Europhysics Letters, 10(5):395-400.
[abstract] [ PDF] ["figure-less" PDF] [citations] [citation via google]Zipf's Law
- Wentian Li (1992),
"Random texts exhibit Zipf's-law-like word frequency distribution",
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 38(6):1842-1845.
[abstract] [PDF(in preprint form)] [entry in CiteSeer] [citations] [citation via google]Statistics, Information Theory, Complexity, and Natural Language Texts
- Wentian Li (1991),
"On the relationship between complexity and entropy for Markov chains and regular languages",
Complex Systems, 5(4):381-399.
[abstract] ["figure-less" PDF] [entry in CiteSeer] [citation via google]Wentian Li (1989, unpublished),
"Mutual information functions of natural language texts",
Santa Fe Institute working paper, 89-008 (November 1989).
["figure-less" PDF]- Wentian Li (1990),
"Mutual information functions versus correlation functions",
Journal of Statistical Physics, 60(5-6):823-837.
[abstract] ["figure-less" PDF] [citations] [citation via google]Wentian Li (1989),
"Mutual information functions versus correlation functions in binary sequences", in Measures of Complexity and Chaos, eds. NB Abraham, AM Albano, A Passamante, and PE Rapp (NATO ASI Series, Series B: Physics Vol. 208), pp. 249-252 (Plenum).Cellular Automata, Cellular Automata Arts, and Artificial Life
Wentian Li (1995),
"Pattern 1170",
in Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature, ed. C Pickover (World Scientific, 1995).
[book's homepage ] [Pickover's homepage ]Wentian Li (1992),
"Non-local cellular automata",
in 1991 Lectures in Complex Systems Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Vol IV, eds. L. Nadel and D. Stein, pp. 317-327 (Addison-Wesley, 1992);
(reprinted, 1997),
in Pattern Formation in the Physical and Biological Sciences, eds. DL Stein, L Nadel, and F Nijhout (Addison-Wesley).
[ "figure-less" PDF ] [Table of contents of 1991 Lectures in Complex Systems ] [Table of contents of Pattern... ]- Wentian Li (1992),
"Phenomenology of nonlocal cellular automata",
Journal of Statistical Physics, 68(5-6):829-882.
[abstract] [entry in CiteSeer] ["figure-less" PDF] [citations] [citation via google]- Wentian Li, Mats Nordahl (1992),
"Transient behavior of cellular automata rule 110",
Physics Letters A, 166(5-6):335-339.
[abstract] [ "figure-less" PDF ] [citations] [citation via google]- Wentian Li, Norman H Packard, Chris G Langton (1990),
"Transition phenomena in cellular automata rule space,"
Physica D (Nonlinearity), 45(1-3):77-94.
[abstract] [entry in CiteSeer] [ "figure-less" PDF ] [citations] [citation via google]- Wentian Li, Norman Packard (1990),
"The structure of the elementary cellular automata rule space",
Complex Systems, 4(3):281-298; errata: 5, 102-103 (1991).
[abstract] [entry in CiteSeer] [ "figure-less" PDF ] [citations] [citation via google]- Wentian Li (1989),
"Complex patterns generated by next nearest neighbors cellular automata",
Computers & Graphics, 13(4):531-537.
[abstract] [ "figure-less" PDF ] [citations] [citaion via google]- Wentian Li (1987),
"Spectra of regular language and cellular automata",
Complex Systems, 1(1):107-130; errata: 2:725 (1989).
[abstract] [ "figure-less" PDF ] [ citations] [citation via google]Chaos, Fractal, and Dynamical Systems
- Wentian Li, Per Bak (1986),
"Fractal dimension of Cantori",
Physical Review Letters, 57(6):655-658.
[abstract] [PDF] [citations] [citation via google] - Wentian Li (1992),
Long-Range Correlations in DNA