Local Renyi

Additional material to submitted manuscript:
Local Rényi entropic profiles of DNA sequencesSusana Vingaa,b* and Jonas S. Almeidac,d
J. Theor. Biol. (submitted)
a Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), R. Alves Redol 9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugalb Departamento de Bioestatística e Informática, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCM/UNL), Campo dos Mártires da Pátria 130, 1169-056 Lisboa, Portugalc Dept Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics, Univ. Texas MDAnderson Cancer Center - unit 447, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston TX 77030-4009, USAd Biomathematics Group, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica – Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB/UNL), R. Qta. Grande 6, 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
E-mail addresses: svinga at algos inesc-id pt (SV), jalmeida at mdanderson org (JSA).
*Corresponding author

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DNA Datasets
Download text files (in FASTA format) with all the DNA sequences used in this study [seq.zip].

Sequence name
Brief description
m3
random with inserted motif L=3 'ATC'
m4
random with inserted motif L=4 'ATCG'
m5
random with inserted motif L=5 'ATCGA'
Es
experimental promoter regions of B.subtilis - see paper for full description

MATLAB source code
Current version 1 (Jan. 19, 2007). Next upgrades will be posted here.
See an application example and look at functions' help. (NOTE: since these files were automatically generated some graphs appear differently from those in the manuscript).
Click to download all m-code MATLAB functions entropicprofile.zip, which includes the following files:

File name
Brief description
readfasta.m
Reads sequences from FASTA format files to struct MATLAB variables
count_repeat.m
Counts L-tuple repetitions for each position in input DNA sequences
fill_kernel3D
Calculates probability density estimation matrix (KM) with fractal kernel. Calls kernel_analytical.m
kernel_analytical.m
Closed form for fractal kernel calculation
normKM.m
Normalizes KM estimations.
find_scale.m
Finds the scale where maxima and minima of KM occur
local_study.m
Analyses specific user defined position/symbol
Links
[Renyi continuous entropy][Alfréd Rényi's Biography][MATLAB site]
Suggestions &Comments: svinga at algos inesc-id ptCreated: 2007 Jan 19 -- Last update: 2007 Jan 19