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ArticleJournal of mathematical biology2020

A mean first passage time genome rearrangement distance.

Andrew R Francis, Henry P Wynn

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Article in Journal of mathematical biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Rearrangement Events on Circular Genomes.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Andrew R FrancisCentre for Research in Mathematics and Data Science, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia. a.francis@westernsydney.edu.au.
Henry P WynnCentre for the Analysis of Time Series, London School of Economics, London, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper introduces a new way to define a genome rearrangement distance, using the concept of mean first passage time from probability theory. Crucially, this distance provides a genuine metric on genome space. We develop the theory and introduce a link to a graph-based zeta function. The approach is very general and can be applied to a wide variety of group-theoretic models of genome evolution.

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Evolution, MolecularGene RearrangementModels, GeneticPhylogenyBacteriaChromosome InversionGenomeGenome, BacterialLikelihood FunctionsMarkov ChainsMathematical ConceptsProbability TheoryTime Factors92B99

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PMID32253463

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