Abstract

In this paper biological sequences are modelled by stationary ergodic sequences. A new family of statistical tests to characterize the randomness of the inputs is proposed and analyzed. Tests for independence and for the determination of the appropriate order of a Markov chain are constructed with the Chaos Game Representation (CGR), and applied to several genomes.

Submitted: April 18, 2005 · Accepted: September 1, 2005 · Published: September 21, 2005

Recommended Citation

Cénac, Peggy (2005) "Test on the Structure of Biological Sequences via Chaos Game Representation," Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1, Article 27.
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/sagmb/vol4/iss1/art27