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Although mutated genes have been studied extensively, their chaotic behavior has not been appreciated. Thus, in contrast to na\u00efve DNA, mutated DNA sequences can display characteristics of unpredictability and sensitivity to the initial conditions that may be dictated by the environment, expression patterns and presence of other genomic alterations. Employing a DNA walk as a form of 2D analysis of the nucleotide sequence, we demonstrate that chaotic behavior in the sequence of a mutated gene can be predicted.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Using fractal analysis for these DNA walks, we have determined the complexity and nucleotide variance of commonly observed mutated genes in non-small cell lung cancer, and their wild-type counterparts. DNA walks for wild-type genes demonstrate varying levels of chaos, with BRAF, NTRK1 and MET exhibiting greater levels of chaos than KRAS, paxillin and EGFR. Analyzing changes in chaotic properties, such as changes in periodicity and linearity, reveal that while deletion mutations indicate a notable disruption in fractal \u2018self-similarity\u2019, fusion mutations demonstrate bifurcations between the two genes. Our results suggest that the fractals generated by DNA walks can yield important insights into potential consequences of these mutated genes.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Introduction to Turtle graphics in Python is an open source article on learning to develop a script for Turtle graphics in Python, freely available on the web at https:\/\/docs.python.org\/2\/library\/turtle.html. cDNA sequences were obtained through NCBI RefSeq database, an open source database that contains information on a large array of genes, such as their nucleotide and amino acid sequences, freely available at https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/refseq\/. FracLac plugin for Fractal analysis in ImageJ is an open source plugin for the ImageJ program to perform fractal analysis, free to download at https:\/\/imagej.nih.gov\/ij\/plugins\/fraclac\/FLHelp\/Introduction.html.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bty1021","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,5]],"date-time":"2019-01-05T12:08:34Z","timestamp":1546690114000},"page":"2738-2748","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["The DNA walk and its demonstration of deterministic chaos\u2014relevance to genomic alterations in lung cancer"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"35","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0219-0165","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Blake","family":"Hewelt","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research"}]},{"given":"Haiqing","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computational & Quantitative Medicine, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Mohit Kumar","family":"Jolly","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA"},{"name":"Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India"}]},{"given":"Prakash","family":"Kulkarni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research"}]},{"given":"Isa","family":"Mambetsariev","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research"}]},{"given":"Ravi","family":"Salgia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023062708553409900_bty1021-B31","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"482","DOI":"10.1016\/j.sbi.2010.06.002","article-title":"Proteins that switch folds","volume":"20","author":"Bryan","year":"2010","journal-title":"Curr. 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