APPLICATIONS OF ENTROPIC DIVERGENCE MEASURES FOR DNA SEGMENTATION INTO HIGH VARIABLE REGIONS OF CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SPP. GP60 GENE

摘要

In this paper we have applied several entropic segmentation methods for obtaining preliminary borders between different regions of the coding gene gp60 subtypes of Cryptosporidium spp parasite. We have calculated Jensen-Shannon and Jensen-Renyi divergences measures for experimental and data bases Cryptosporidium. The statistical comparisons obtained by segmenting the DNA borders have shown that divergence Jensen-Shannon and Jensen-Renyi are accurate enough to indicate that regions with high variability: the microsatellite region and the hypervariable region, respectively.