Zipf's law and human transcriptomes: An explanation with an evolutionary model

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 326, Issue 10-11, 2003, Pages 1097-1101

  Ogasawara, Osamu ^a   Kawamoto, Shoko ^a   Okubo, Kousaku ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abundance; Expression; Frequency; Transcriptome; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ABUNDANCE; EVOLUTION; GENOME;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENETICS; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LAW; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSCLE CELL;

EID: 0345860861     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2003.09.031     Document Type: Article

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