Stochastic evolution and multifractal classification of prokaryotes

摘要

We introduce a model for simulating mutation of prokaryote DNA sequences. Using that model we can then evaluated traditional techniques like parsimony and maximum likelihood methods for computing phylogenetic relationships. We also use the model to mimic large scale genomic changes, and use this to evaluate multi-fractal and related information theory techniques which take into account these large changes in determining phylogenetic relationships.