Nonlinear Dynamics in the Binary DNA/RNA Coding Problem
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The presence of low dimensional chaos in the protein secondary structures, using the binary coded $α$-helices and $β$-sheet motifs, has been investigated. In order to analyse symbolic DNA/RNA sequences the assignment, based on the purine/pyrimidine and strong/wea k H - bond classification sheme, of binary numbers to the nucleotides was made. We have found that this assignment leads to different averaged fractal dimensions for $α$-helices and $β$-sheets. When embedded in the two dimensional phase space the binary string structures show the attractor type behavior which depends on the value of the time lag parameter.
14 pages, LaTex
14 pages, LaTex