Fractals, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1998) 205-210
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APPLICATION OF VECTOR SPACE TECHNIQUES TO DNA

T. BÍRÓ, A. CZIRÓK and T. VICSEK
Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Puskin u 5-7, 1088 Hungary
 

Á. MAJOR
Department of Genetics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Múzeum krt 4/a, 1088 Hungary

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We propose the application of a recent vector space technique for the analysis of DNA sequences. In this approach the similarity of two series of symbols is measured by the dot products of vectors corresponding to the given sequences. In this paper we demonstrate that this measure, depending on the short-range properties of the sequences, may be used for identifying different elements of the genome.
 

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