Oikonomou, Th.; Provata, A.; Tirnakli, U. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 11, pp. 2653-2659
We use q-exponential distributions, which maximize the nonextensive entropy Sq (defined as Sq≡(1−∑ipiq)/(q−1)), to study the size distributions of non-coding DNA (including introns and intergenic regions) in all human chromosomes. We show that the value of the exponent q describing the...