Context-free evolutionary grammars and the structural language of nucleic acids.

doi:10.1016/s0303-2647(97)00036-1

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Context-free evolutionary grammars and the structural language of nucleic acids.

Bio Systems - 1 Jan 1997

Dassow J, Mitrana V, Salomaa A

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This paper introduces and investigates a generative mechanism based on some operations inspired by the large-scale mutations in genomes (deletion, inversion, transposition, duplication). Basic questions regarding these devices and their generated languages are investigated: generative capacity, c...

Topics

Evolution, Molecular
Genome
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Conformation

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