Abstract—To differentiate coding regions from noncoding regions is an important task in the field of bioinformatics. Our goal here is to analyze coding and noncoding regions and find similarities for coding and noncoding regions respectively. We use wavelet analysis to analyze coding and noncoding regions of DNA sequences by calculating wavelet variance and entropy which give rise to some distinctions between two regions. Based on the calculated results, we provide some similarities for coding and noncoding regions for variance and entropy respectively.

Index Terms—Wavelets, wavelet transform, wavelet variance, entropy, coding and noncoding regions

The authors are with the Department of Mathematics, Central Michigan University, and Mount Pleasant, MI 48859, U.S.A (e-mail:enbing.lin@cmich.edu)

Cite: En-Bing Lin and Mojisola Oyapero, "Wavelet Variance and Entropy of DNA Sequences," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 70-72, 2012.