1 V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine |
2 V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine |
3 V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine |
4 V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine |
Abstract. Optimal genetic codes are constructed using DNA symmetry, whose noise immunity with respect to polarity of amino acids in case of mutations in nucleotides is much greater than immunity of standard codes. Noise immunity of optimal symmetric and non-symmetric genetic codes is analyzed. Databases of genetic diseases are used to show that optimal symmetric code for which symmetry holds in half of cases keeps polarity of amino acids at mutations in first and second nucleotides of codon as compared with standard code.
Keywords: genetic code, symmetry in DNA, mutations in nucleotides, noise immunity, amino acid, codon.