Fractal properties of DNA walks.
We describe two dimensional DNA walks, and analyze their fractal properties. We show results for the complete genome of S. cerevisiae. We find that the mean square deviation of the walks is superdifussive, corresponding to a fractal structure of dimension lower than two. Furthermore, the coding part of the genome seems to have smaller fractal dimension, and longer correlations, than noncoding parts.
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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
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D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry*; D017709:Fractals; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics
D004271:DNA, Fungal