ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SPP. GP60 GENE VARIABILITY

摘要

In this paper we used statistical methods for to study DNA sequences different species of Cryptosporidium: two reference DNA sequences from public GenBank database and one sample DNA sequence isolated and analyzed by sequencing in our laboratory, which was proposed to be deposited in GenBank. Using statistical concepts as Shannon entropy, Onicescu informational energy, different statistical distances types we ordered the three DNA sequences according to their structure variability. We have also introduced two indices: the index associated to structural information quantities Shannon entropy and Onicescu energy and the altered index associated to the structural discrepancy quantity, respectively. We have approach firstly these statistical methods for Cryptosporidium.