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ArticleNucleic acids research2013

Categorical spectral analysis of periodicity in human and viral genomes.

Elizabeth D Howe, Jun S Song

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth D HoweInstitute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0794, San Francisco, CA 94143-0794, USA.
Jun S Song
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Periodicity in nucleotide sequences arises from regular repeating patterns which may reflect important structure and function. Although a three-base periodicity in coding regions has been known for some time and has provided the basis for powerful gene prediction algorithms, its origins are still not fully understood. Here, we show that, contrary to common belief, amino acid (AA) bias and codon usage bias are insufficient to create base-3 periodicity. This article applies the rigorous method of spectral envelope to systematically characterize the contributions of codon bias, AA bias and protein structural motifs to the three-base periodicity of coding sequences. The method is also used to classify CpG islands in the human genome. In addition, we show how spectral envelope can be used to trace the evolution of viral genomes and monitor global sequence changes without having to align to previously known genomes. This approach also detects reassortment events, such as those that led to the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus.

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Genome, HumanGenome, ViralBase CompositionBase SequenceCodonCodon, TerminatorCpG IslandsDNAEvolution, MolecularHumansInfluenza A Virus, H1N1 SubtypeMarkov ChainsMonte Carlo MethodNucleotidesProteinsProtein Structure, TertiaryCodonCodon, TerminatorDNANucleotidesProteins

Identifiers

PMID23241388
PMCPMC3561982
OpenAlexW2059597971

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