Biological and medical physics, biomedical engineering
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-413) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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A review of chemistry -- A review of aspects of automata theory -- The beginning numbers -- Regular languages: DNA and RNA -- Context free languages: DNA and RNA -- Context sensitive languages: DNA, RNA, proteins -- Turing machines and sub-turing machines -- Splicing systems, H systems -- tRNA structure -- Semigroups and bioinformatics -- Automata theory: non-bioinformatics emergent computation.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Emergent Computation is concerned with recent applications of mathematical linguistics or automata theory. The primary focus is upon "bioinformatics" (the genome and rising interest in the proteome), but the closing chapter also examines applications in biology, medicine, anthropology, and so on." "The papers examine the subjects of interest from the point of view of applying language theory to search for new results, but also as biological automatons (implementations or machines) to do calculations." "This book will be of value of those studying bioinformatics, biochemistry, computer science, mathematical linguistics, and biology, as well as pharmacology (with the possible promise of medically active artificial DNA, RNA, and proteins). Laboratory results demonstrating the usefulness of the topics discussed are shown both in vitro and in vivo."--Jacket.