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Neutral network sizes of biological RNA molecules can be computed and are not atypically small.
BMC bioinformatics - 30 Oct 2008
Jörg Thomas, Martin Olivier C, Wagner Andreas
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Neutral networks or sets consist of all genotypes with a given phenotype. The size and structure of these sets has a strong influence on a biological system's robustness to mutations, and on its evolvability, the ability to produce phenotypic variation; in the few studied cases of molecular phenotypes, the larger this set, the greater both robustness and evolvability of phenotypes. Unfortunately, any...
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