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Standard spectral density measurement techniques are applied in a new manner to individual base positions in DNA sequences. The measurements demonstrate the ubiquity of low frequency l/fβ noise and long-range fractal correlations as well as prominent short-range periodicities. Large averages over classifications in the GenBank data bank (primate, invertebrate, plant, ...) show systematic changes in spectral exponent ß with evolutionary category.
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Voss, R.F. (1993). 1/f Noise and Fractals in DNA-base Sequences. In: Crilly, A.J., Earnshaw, R.A., Jones, H. (eds) Applications of Fractals and Chaos. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78097-4_2
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