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1Laboratorio de Física y Química Computacional, Centro de Resonancia Magnética Escuela de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Central de Venezuela 2Laboratorio de Física Computacional, Centro de Física Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas Postal Address: Apartado Postal 47586, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela
[Poster presentation, American Physical Society Centennial Meeting, March 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, USA] Abstract
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In the present work, we propose a new method to characterize the complexity of the genetic code in DNA strands by using a specific measure of the entropy. The target DNA sequences were the same as those reported by Peng et al. in 1992, analyzing not only the original sequence but also its coding segments and proteins. Also intron-containing sequences were modified to simulate intron-less sequences for comparison. The results reveal that there is not a significant difference for the entropy measure between intron-containing and intron-less sequences, which seems to be in correspondence with other results. In the case of proteins, they exhibit a well defined behavior as a function of the length of the peptide chain. Further work is pursued to analyze a larger database even for nucleotide and aminoacid sequences.