Scaling laws in the functional content of genomes
| dc.creator | van Nimwegen, Erik | |
| dc.date | 2003-07-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T05:49:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T05:49:35Z | |
| dc.description | With the number of sequenced genomes now over one hundred, and the availability of rough functional annotations for a substantial proportion of their genes, it has become possible to study the statistics of gene content across genomes. Here I show that, for many high-level functional categories, the number of genes in the category scales as a power-law in the total number of genes in the genome. The occurrence of such scaling laws can be explained with a simple theoretical model, and this model suggests that the exponents of the observed scaling laws correspond to universal constants of the evolutionary process. I discuss some consequences of these scaling laws for our understanding of organism design. | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0307001 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0307001 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/85443 | |
| dc.subject | Biological Physics | |
| dc.subject | Genomics | |
| dc.title | Scaling laws in the functional content of genomes | |
| dc.type | text |