Fractal signature of coronaviruses related to severe acute respiratory syndrome

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aim of this work was to investigate the genome of SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2 by the paradigm of chaos theory and fractal geometry. Coronavirus is the agent that causes the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and emergent infections such as the present pandemic of COVID-19. Understanding its genome pattern is important for developing new and faster ways of testing for identifying the genome of the virus and also for better understanding of its origin and evolution.

Methods

For that, it was calculated the alpha coefficient by detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) for the sequences of these genomes converted to binary numbers in order to determine if it is a chaotic or a random series of data. Also, it appli

SUBMITTER: de Salazar e Fernandes T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7320653 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature