A Jaccard-Like Symbol and Its Usefulness in the Derivation of Amino Acid Distributions in Protein Domain Families

Rubem P. Mondaini () and Simão C. de Albuquerque Neto
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Rubem P. Mondaini: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Centre of Technology, COPPE
Simão C. de Albuquerque Neto: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Centre of Technology, COPPE

A chapter in Trends in Biomathematics: Chaos and Control in Epidemics, Ecosystems, and Cells, 2021, pp 201-220 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Entropy measures have been used to derive the distributions of amino acids in Protein Domain Families in the current literature. In this note, we analyse the performance of a functional of entropy measures based on the Jaccard symbol. This concept has been used by the botanist P. Jaccard on his work for classifying flowers in the Alps more than one century ago. We presume that the usefulness of our proposal for a Jaccard-like symbol will be also efficient for understanding and describing the evolution of protein domains as observed on protein databases. We are living an Ephemerides epoch again. We are not working with the motion of planets as registered by the observations of centuries, but we intend to understand the evolution process and the protein motion toward a folded state and vice versa.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73241-7_13

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