Comment on "Linguistic Features of Noncoding DNA Sequences"

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In a recent Physical Review Letter, Mantegna et. al., report that certain statistical signatures of natural language can be found in non-coding DNA sequences. In this comment we show that random noise with power-law correlation similar to $1/f$ noise, exhibits the same "linguistic" signature as those found in non-coding DNA. We conclude that these signatures cannot distinguish languages from noise.
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Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems, Quantitative Biology

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/147038

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