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'Genome order index' should not be used for defining compositional constraints in nucleotide sequences

Eran ElHaik, Dan Graur and Kresimir Josic

We discuss a recently proposed constraint on the statistical structure of the genome sequence and find that it is mathematically inconsistent with well known biological features of the genome.

There has been some controversy with this publication. 
A longer version of the paper appeared in Biology Direct, and is available free at the following    link.

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