Watson-Crick walks and roads on DOL graphs

Salomaa Arto: Watson-Crick walks and roads on DOL graphs. In: Acta cybernetica, (14) 1. pp. 179-192. (1999)

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Abstract

Apart from the massive parallelism of DNA strands, the phenomenon known as Watson-Crick complementarity, is basic both in the experiments and theory of DNA computing. The parallelism makes exhaustive searches possible, whereas the complementarity is a powerful computational tool. This paper investigates complementarity as a language-theoretic operation: "bad" words obtained through a generative process are replaced by their complementary ones. While this idea is applicable to any generative process, it seems particularly suitable for Lindenmayer systems. DOL systems augmented with a specific complementarity transition, "Watson-Crick DOL systems", are investigated in this paper. Many issues involved are conveniently expressed in terms of certain paths, "Watson- Crick walks", in an associated digraph.

Item Type: Article
Journal or Publication Title: Acta cybernetica
Date: 1999
Volume: 14
Number: 1
ISSN: 0324-721X
Page Range: pp. 179-192
Language: English
Place of Publication: Szeged
Related URLs: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/38507/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Számítástechnika, Kibernetika
Additional Information: Bibliogr.: p. 191-192. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Subjects: 01. Natural sciences
01. Natural sciences > 01.02. Computer and information sciences
Date Deposited: 2016. Oct. 15. 12:26
Last Modified: 2022. Jun. 14. 10:07
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/12618

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