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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, closure properties, decidability. We also briefly discuss a few problems concerning our model with respect to some...
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