title: Oligonucleotide frequencies in DNA follow a Yule distribution.
abstract: We show that ranked oligonucleotide frequencies in both protein-coding and non-coding regions from several genomes fit poorly to the Zipf distribution, but that the same frequency data give excellent fit to the Yule distribution. The parameters of the Yule distribution for oligonucleotide frequencies in exons are the same (within error limits) as the parameters for introns. This precludes application of Yule or Zipf distribution of ranked oligonucleotide frequencies to annotating new genomic sequences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martindale
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Konopka
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D009841:Oligonucleotides; D004247:DNA