Article
Rohlin distance and the evolution of influenza A virus: weak attractors and precursors.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Burioni Raffaella, Scalco Riccardo, Casartelli Mario
Abstract excerpt
The evolution of the hemagglutinin amino acids sequences of Influenza A virus is studied by a method based on an informational metrics, originally introduced by Rohlin for partitions in abstract probability spaces. This metrics does not require any previous functional or syntactic knowledge about the sequences and it is sensitive to the correlated variations in the characters disposition. Its efficiency is...
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