Year: 2004
Type: preprint
Abstract: A spin chain, describing a nucleotides sequence, is identified by the labels of a vector state of an irreducible representation of U_q->0(sl2). A master equation for the distribution function is written, where the intensity of the one-spin flip is assumed to depend on the variation of the labels. The numerically computed equilibrium distribution is nicely fitted by a Yule distribution, which is the observed distribution of the ranked short oligonucleotides frequency in DNA
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Minichini, C., Sciarrino, A.
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1571920653