Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
759493 Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 2012 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

This paper studies the information content of the chromosomes of 24 species. In a first phase, a scheme inspired in dynamical system state space representation is developed. For each chromosome the state space dynamical evolution is shed into a two dimensional chart. The plots are then analyzed and characterized in the perspective of fractal dimension. This information is integrated in two measures of the species’ complexity addressing its average and variability. The results are in close accordance with phylogenetics pointing quantitative aspects of the species’ genomic complexity.

► Evaluation of DNA in the perspective of system dynamics. ► DNA decoding using phase plane and fractal dimension. ► Accessing species complexity from genome information.

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