Symmetry analysis in genetic code using dynamic systems concepts

• Grant number: 98/14909-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 1999
• End date: June 30, 2002
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - General Physics
• Principal Investigator: José Eduardo Martinho Hornos
• Grantee: Marcio Magini
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 96/01501-6 - Break in symmetry and evolution of genetic code, AP.TEM

Abstract

The study of the processes spontaneous break of symmetry has been attracting interest in several areas of the physics, for example, in the study of the energy of an atom, as well as in physics of high energy, in the study of the elementary particles. In our case we have as doing a careful analysis of as those symmetries they show through dynamic systems, in particular in the study of the standard genetic code. The analysis of its symmetries through the tools provided by the Theory of Groups and for the study of Dynamic Systems they can take us to the important results. This work consists of determining invariant functions and equivariant maps that obey the resulted symmetry of the diagram of weights of the representation (2,1,0) of the group Sp(6). This symmetry, that is a solid of Plato, is already very well known in the geometry, the truncated octhaedro... (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MAGINI, Marcio. Study of equivariants maps under octahedral group action: a dynamic system for the evolution of the genetic code.. 2002. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT) São Carlos.