title: Analysis and visualization of chromosome information.
abstract: This paper analyzes the DNA code of several species in the perspective of information content. For that purpose several concepts and mathematical tools are selected towards establishing a quantitative method without a priori distorting the alphabet represented by the sequence of DNA bases. The synergies of associating Gray code, histogram characterization and multidimensional scaling visualization lead to a collection of plots with a categorical representation of species and chromosomes.
authors: Institute of Engineering of Porto, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal. jtm@isep.ipp.pt
authors: J A Tenreiro
authors: JA
authors: Machado
authors: António C
authors: AC
authors: Costa
authors: Maria Dulce
authors: MD
authors: Quelhas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002875:Chromosomes; D019295:Computational Biology; D005815:Genetic Code; D008433:Mathematics; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA