This is a presentation titled "Additive Methods to Overcome the Limitations of Genomic Signature," that I gave at the conference "Computationally Assisted Mathematical Discovery and Experimental Mathematics,"ACMES, May 12-15 2016, London, Canada, hosted by University of Western Ontario's Rotman Institute of Philosophy. I describe the use of CGR — Chaos Game Representation — of DNA sequences, a method to convert a DNA sequence into a two-dimensional image. It has been shown that CGRs of genomic sequences are species-specific, and that the patterns visible in the CGR of a genomic sequence are independent of the length and the location of that sequence in the genome. Hence CGRs of genomic (sub)sequences can be used as a "genomic signature" of the organism they belong to, and utilized for taxonomic identification a classification of species.

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