Fuzzy attributes of a DNA complex: Development of a fuzzy inference engine for codon-"junk" codon delineation

Codons refer to those parts in a DNA complex encoded towards forming a desired set of proteins. Also coexist in the DNA are noncodons (or "junk" codons) whose functions are not so well defined. The presence of codon and noncodon parts in a DNA sequence may conform to diffused (overlapping) states. That is, codon-noncodon constituents may exhibit sharpless boundaries (at least in some parts of a DNA chain) with indistinctive statistics of occurrence; and, such a mix of codon and noncodon entities existing in a DNA structure constitutes a fuzzy universe. The associated information contents of these overlapping domains also form a fuzzy data structure that could only be identified in descriptive norms with characteristic membership of belongingness to certain attributes. A need exists in bioinformatics to identify and delineate such overlapping entities so as to ascertain the boundary of separation between codons and noncodons. The present study offers a method to analyze a DNA...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2005
• Where: ARTMED
• Authors: Tomás Arredondo Vidal, Perambur S. Neelakanta, Dolores F. De Groff
• Keywords: ARTMED 2005, Codons, DNA Complex, DNA Sequence