Relative entropy differences in bacterial chromosomes, plasmids, phages and genomic islands
Open Access
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Genomics
- Vol. 13 (1) , 66
Abstract
We sought to assess whether the concept of relative entropy (information capacity), could aid our understanding of the process of horizontal gene transfer in microbes. We analyzed the differences in information capacity between prokaryotic chromosomes, genomic islands (GI), phages, and plasmids. Relative entropy was estimated using the Kullback-Leibler measure.Keywords
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