Journal of Molecular Evolution

, Volume 16, Issue 1, pp 69–72 | Cite as

The broken-stick model for amino acid composition in proteins

  • Yoshiaki Itoh
  • Sumie Ueda
  • Masami Hasegawa
Article

Summary

The relative abundances among the amino acids, which are functionally similar to one another, were explained by random partition of a unit interval.

Key words

Broken-stick model Amino acid composition 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Yoshiaki Itoh
    • 1
  • Sumie Ueda
    • 1
  • Masami Hasegawa
    • 1
  1. 1.The Institute of Statistical MathematicsTokyoJapan

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