Similarity evaluation of DNA sequences based on frequent patterns and entropy

Table 5 Comparison of the distances between human and the other tested species.

	Bovine	Chimpanzee	Gallus	Goat	Gorilla	Lemur	Mouse	Opossum	Rabbit	Rat	Correlation coefficient
MEGA 5.2	0.4485	0.0095	0.8456	0.4696	0.0117	0.2423	0.4815	0.8337	0.4083	0.4935	-
BLASTN 2.2.29+[7]	0.8600	0.0896	0.9880	0.8765	0.0896	0.6643	0.9026	1.0000	0.8423	0.9182	0.8912
Method of [14]	22.4257	5.3704	23.5869	26.8209	5.3704	25.2515	25.8007	25.9952	20.5706	27.0102	0.7569
Method of [18]	0.1000	0.0100	0.2150	0.1050	0.0110	0.0550	0.0830	0.0890	0.0700	0.0620	0.8318
FPE	0.0670	0.0000	0.0792	0.0820	0.0000	0.0478	0.0663	0.1537	0.0664	0.0664	0.8966

Note that the results from [14] are based on the sequence of the first exon in each β-globin gene.

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