Intro to the pyusm package This book provides deeper explanations and theory overview to support the modules found in the pyusm package. pyusm is a python package implementing and expanding on the universal sequence mapping tools created by S. Vinga and J. Almeida and referenced in 1 2 3.

Core References [1]

[1] Vinga, S., & Almeida, J. S. (2004). Rényi continuous entropy of DNA sequences. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 231(3), 377–388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.06.030

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[2] Almeida, J. S., & Vinga, S. (2002). Universal sequence map (USM) of arbitrary discrete sequences. BMC Bioinformatics, 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-3-6

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[3] Almeida, J. S., & Vinga, S. (2009). Biological sequences as pictures: A generic two dimensional solution for iterated maps. BMC Bioinformatics, 10(100), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-100