Special Issue on Noise in Condensed Matter and Complex Systems; Guest Editors: Werner Ebeling and Bernardo SpagnoloNo Access

INVERTED REPEATS IN VIRAL GENOMES

M. SPANÒ

INFM Unità di Palermo and Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative, viale delle Scienze, Edificio 18, I-90128, Palermo, Italy

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F. LILLO

INFM Unità di Palermo and Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative, viale delle Scienze, Edificio 18, I-90128, Palermo, Italy

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy

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S. MICCICHÈ

INFM Unità di Palermo and Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative, viale delle Scienze, Edificio 18, I-90128, Palermo, Italy

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy

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R. N. MANTEGNA

INFM Unità di Palermo and Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative, viale delle Scienze, Edificio 18, I-90128, Palermo, Italy

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219477505002550Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We investigate 738 complete genomes of viruses to detect the presence of short inverted repeats. The number of inverted repeats found is compared with the prediction obtained for a Bernoullian and for a Markovian control model. We find as a statistical regularity that the number of observed inverted repeats is often greater than the one expected in terms of a Bernoullian or Markovian model in several of the viruses and in almost all those with a genome longer than 30,000 bp.

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