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Hierarchical structure of cascade of primary and secondary periodicities in Fourier power spectrum of alphoid higher order repeats.

03 Nov 2008-BMC Bioinformatics (BioMed Central)-Vol. 9, Iss: 1, pp 466-466
TL;DR: DFT provides a robust detection method for higher order periodicity and is robust with respect to monomer insertions and deletions, random sequence insertions etc.
Abstract: Background Identification of approximate tandem repeats is an important task of broad significance and still remains a challenging problem of computational genomics. Often there is no single best approach to periodicity detection and a combination of different methods may improve the prediction accuracy. Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) has been extensively used to study primary periodicities in DNA sequences. Here we investigate the application of DFT method to identify and study alphoid higher order repeats.

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14 Dec 2009
TL;DR: "Data Mining Techniques for the Life Sciences" seeks to aid students and researchers in the life sciences who wish to get a condensed introduction into the vital world of biological databases and their many applications.
Abstract: Whereas getting exact data about living systems and sophisticated experimental procedures have primarily absorbed the minds of researchers previously, the development of high-throughput technologies has caused the weight to increasingly shift to the problem of interpreting accumulated data in terms of biological function and biomolecular mechanisms. In "Data Mining Techniques for the Life Sciences", experts in the field contribute valuable information about the sources of information and the techniques used for "mining" new insights out of databases. Beginning with a section covering the concepts and structures of important groups of databases for biomolecular mechanism research, the book then continues with sections on formal methods for analyzing biomolecular data and reviews of concepts for analyzing biomolecular sequence data in context with other experimental results that can be mapped onto genomes. As a volume of the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, this work provides the kind of detailed description and implementation advice that is crucial for getting optimal results. Authoritative and easy to reference, "Data Mining Techniques for the Life Sciences" seeks to aid students and researchers in the life sciences who wish to get a condensed introduction into the vital world of biological databases and their many applications.

135 citations


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  • ...More recently, new technologies of third and fourth generation sequencing [5] such as single cell molecule [6], nanopore-based [7] have been applied to whole-transcriptome analysis that opened a possibility for profiling rare or heterogeneous populations of cells....

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  • ...The frequency of stabilizing and destabilizing mutations in all single mutants [5] showed that most of the mutational experiments have been carried out with hydrophobic substitutions (replacement of one hydrophobic residue with another, e....

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  • ...The stability data for a set of 180 double mutants have been collected from ProTherm database [3, 5] and related them with sequence based features such as wild-type residue, mutant residue, and three neighboring residues on both directions of the mutant site....

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  • ...org/) [5], with the aim of coordinating and synchronizing the curation effort of all the participants and to offer a unified, freely available, consistently annotated and nonredundant molecular interaction dataset....

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  • ...The data come in three different formats: old-style PDB-format files, macromolecular Crystallographic Information File (mmCIF) format [5], and a XMLstyle format called PDBML/XML [6]....

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TL;DR: A review of the literature on statistical long-range correlation in DNA sequences can be found in this paper, where the authors conclude that a mixture of many length scales (including some relatively long ones) is responsible for the observed 1/f-like spectral component.
Abstract: In this paper, we review the literature on statistical long-range correlation in DNA sequences. We examine the current evidence for these correlations, and conclude that a mixture of many length scales (including some relatively long ones) in DNA sequences is responsible for the observed 1/f-like spectral component. We note the complexity of the correlation structure in DNA sequences. The observed complexity often makes it hard, or impossible, to decompose the sequence into a few statistically stationary regions. We suggest that, based on the complexity of DNA sequences, a fruitful approach to understand long-range correlation is to model duplication, and other rearrangement processes, in DNA sequences. One model, called ``expansion-modification system", contains only point duplication and point mutation. Though simplistic, this model is able to generate sequences with 1/f spectra. We emphasize the importance of DNA duplication in its contribution to the observed long-range correlation in DNA sequences.

130 citations

01 Aug 2001
TL;DR: Spectral analyses performed indicate that these measure representations, considered as time series, exhibit strong long-range correlation and the multifractal property of the measure representation and the classification of bacteria.
Abstract: This paper introduces the notion of measure representation of DNA sequences. Spectral analysis and multifractal analysis are then performed on the measure representations of a large number of complete genomes. The main aim of this paper is to discuss the multifractal property of the measure representation and the classification of bacteria. From the measure representations and the values of the Dq spectra and related Cq curves, it is concluded that these complete genomes are not random sequences. In fact, spectral analyses performed indicate that these measure representations, considered as time series, exhibit strong long-range correlation. Here the long-range correlation is for the K-strings with dictionary ordering, and it is different from the base pair correlations introduced by other people. For substrings with length K=8, the Dq spectra of all organisms studied are multifractal-like and sufficiently smooth for the Cq curves to be meaningful. With the decreasing value of K, the multifractality lessens. The Cq curves of all bacteria resemble a classical phase transition at a critical point. But the ‘‘analogous’’ phase transitions of chromosomes of nonbacteria organisms are different. Apart from chromosome 1 of C. elegans, they exhibit the shape of double-peaked specific heat function. A classification of genomes of bacteria by assigning to each sequence a point in two-dimensional space (D_{-1} ,D1) and in three-dimensional space (D_{-1} ,D1 ,D_{-2}) was given. Bacteria that are close phylogenetically are almost close in the spaces (D_{-1} ,D1) and (D_{-1} ,D1 ,D_{-2}).

102 citations

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TL;DR: This work presents several case studies of GRM use, and presents the use of complete set of a K-string ensemble which enables a new method of direct mapping of symbolic DNA sequence into frequency domain, with straightforward identification of repeats as peaks in GRM diagram.
Abstract: The main feature of global repeat map (GRM) algorithm (www.hazu.hr/grm/software/win/grm2012 .exe) is its ability to identify a broad variety of repeats of unbounded length that can be arbitrarily distant in sequences as large as human chromosomes. The efficacy is due to the use of complete set of a K-string ensemble which enables a new method of direct mapping of symbolic DNA sequence into frequency domain, with straightforward identification of repeats as peaks in GRM diagram. In this way, we obtain very fast, efficient and highly automatized repeat finding tool. The method is robust to substitutions and insertions/deletions, as well as to various complexities of the sequence pattern. We present several case studies of GRM use, in order to illustrate its capabilities: identification of a-satellite tandem repeats and higher order repeats (HORs), identification of Alu dispersed repeats and of Alu tandems, identification of Period 3 pattern in exons, implementation of ‘magnifying glass’ effect, identification of complex HOR pattern, identification of inter-tandem transitional dispersed repeat sequences and identification of long segmental duplications. GRM algorithm is convenient for use, in particular, in cases of large repeat units, of highly mutated and/ or complex repeats, and of global repeat maps for large genomic sequences (chromosomes and genomes).

27 citations


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  • ...These GRM results are in accordance with the pattern of previous results obtained by using heuristic algorithms (96)....

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01 Sep 2011-Genomics
TL;DR: The comparison with available experimental data indicates that promoters with the most pronounced periodicities may be related to the supercoiling-sensitive genes.

23 citations


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  • ...This sum is invariant with respect to complementary inversion of a sequence [34] and is more convenient for comparing the helical periodicities in the complete genome and in the promoter sequences (in the latter case, the promoters on two chains were always compiled as 5 ́–3 ́ sequences)....

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  • ...through sets of equidistant peaks [31, 34, 35]....

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TL;DR: Analysis of alpha satellite evolution data shows that selection-driven evolution, rather than random fixation of mutations, formed the distinction between A and B types, to be the first evidence for selection in any of the known satellite DNAs.

78 citations


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  • ...Alphoid arrays consist of tandem repeats of alpha satellite monomer unit of approximately 171 bp, which form chromosome-specific higher order repeats (HOR) or monomeric organization consisting of diverged monomers [90-104]....

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  • ...morphic variation within these subsets [90-103]....

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TL;DR: In contradiction with previous studies, it is shown that the fractal behavior of DNA chains does not always prevail through the entire DNA molecule.
Abstract: We study statistical properties of DNA chains of thirteen microbial complete genomes. We find that the power spectrum of several of the sequences studied flattens off in the low frequency limit. This implies the correlation length in those sequences is much smaller than the entire DNA chain. Consequently, in contradiction with previous studies, we show that the fractal behavior of DNA chains does not always prevail through the entire DNA molecule.

72 citations


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  • ...At very low frequencies (for example, f < 10-6) the power spectrum flattens out [87-89]....

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TL;DR: A long-range physical map of the centromeric region of human chromosome 7 has been constructed in order to define the region containing sequences with potential involvement in centromere function and provides a framework for analysis of the structure of DNA in the Centromeric regions of other human and mammalian chromosomes.
Abstract: A long-range physical map of the centromeric region of human chromosome 7 has been constructed in order to define the region containing sequences with potential involvement in centromere function. The map is centered around alpha satellite DNA, a family of tandemly repeated DNA forming arrays of hundreds to thousands of kilobasepairs at the primary constriction of every human chromosome. Two distinct alpha satellite arrays (the loci D7Z1 and D7Z2) have previously been localized to chromosome 7. Detailed one- and two- locus maps of the chromosome 7 centromere have been constructed. Our data indicate that D7Z1 and D7Z2 arrays are not interspersed with each other but are both present on a common Mlu I restriction fragment estimated to be 3500 kb and 5500 kb on two different chromosome 7's investigated. These long-range maps, combined with previous measurements of the D7Z1 and D7Z2 array lengths, are used to construct a consensus map of the centromere of chromosome 7. The analysis used to construct the map provides, by extension, a framework for analysis of the structure of DNA in the centromeric regions of other human and mammalian chromosomes.

71 citations


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  • ...Analyzing complete nucleotide sequence we found domains having different repeat pattern, the central HOR domain and the bordering domains (front and back domains), in accordance with identifications obtained using other methods [94-97,105108]....

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  • ...Alphoid arrays consist of tandem repeats of alpha satellite monomer unit of approximately 171 bp, which form chromosome-specific higher order repeats (HOR) or monomeric organization consisting of diverged monomers [90-104]....

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  • ...morphic variation within these subsets [90-103]....

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  • ...As a case study we consider a 16 mer HOR at the loci D7Z2 and D7Z1 in human chromosome 7 [94-97]....

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TL;DR: The general measure of DNA repetitiveness proposed in this paper can be efficiently computed on a genomic scale and reveals a broad spectrum of repetitiveness among diverse genomes which agrees qualitatively with previous studies of repeat content.
Abstract: Genome sequences vary strongly in their repetitiveness and the causes for this are still debated. Here we propose a novel measure of genome repetitiveness, the index of repetitiveness, Ir, which can be computed in time proportional to the length of the sequences analyzed. We apply it to 336 genomes from all three domains of life. The expected value of Ir is zero for random sequences of any G/C content and greater than zero for sequences with excess repeats. We find that the Ir of archaea is significantly smaller than that of eubacteria, which in turn is smaller than that of eukaryotes. Mouse chromosomes have a significantly higher Ir than human chromosomes and within each genome the Y chromosome is most repetitive. A sliding window analysis reveals that the human HOXA cluster and two surrounding genes are characterized by local minima in Ir. A program for calculating the Ir is freely available at http://adenine.biz.fh-weihenstephan.de/ir/ . The general measure of DNA repetitiveness proposed in this paper can be efficiently computed on a genomic scale. This reveals a broad spectrum of repetitiveness among diverse genomes which agrees qualitatively with previous studies of repeat content. A sliding window analysis helps to analyze the intragenomic distribution of repeats.

69 citations


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  • ...Repeat sequences are a common feature of genomes [1-3]....

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TL;DR: The information decomposition (ID) method to analyze symbolical sequences is presented and has advantages in comparison with application of the Fourier transformation, the wavelet transform and the dynamic programming method to look for latent periodicity.

66 citations