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  title info:
    title: Emergent Computation
    sub title: Emphasizing Bioinformatics
  name:
    name part: Simon, Matthew.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 423 p. 274 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Emergent Computation is concerned with recent applications of Mathematical Linguistics or Automata Theory. This subject has a primary focus upon "Bioinformatics" (the Genome and arising interest in the Proteome), but the closing chapter also examines applications in Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, etc. The book is composed of an organized examination of DNA, RNA, and the assembly of amino acids into proteins. Rather than examine these areas from a purely mathematical viewpoint (that excludes much of the biochemical reality), the author uses scientific papers written mostly by biochemists based upon their laboratory observations. Thus while DNA may exist in its double stranded form, triple stranded forms are not excluded. Similarly, while bases exist in Watson-Crick complements, mismatched bases and abasic pairs are not excluded, nor are Hoogsteen bonds. Just as there are four bases naturally found in DNA, the existence of additional bases is not ignored, nor amino acids in addition to the usual complement of 20. Can there be more than "64" possible codons? RNA is examined from the point of view of Nussinov plots. All information is presented from the point of view of regular, context-free, and context sensitive languages, as well as Turing machines and Sequential Machines (and their corresponding semi-groups). Relationships to other subjects of mathematics such as Complex numbers, Quaternions, Algebraic-Topology, and Knot Theory are also mentioned. An examination is made of Splicing Systems as well as Dominoes. Shortcomings illustrating the dangers of mathematical abstractions that ignore biochemistry are pointed out. 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 to those studying Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Computer-Science, Mathematical Linguistics, and Biology, as well as Phar…
  table of contents: Emergent Computation: Bioinformatics -- 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 and Disciplines Other than Bioinformatics -- Automata Theory: Non-Bioinformatics Emergent Computation.
  note: by Matthew Simon.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biochemical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics and Biological Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biochemical Engineering
  classification: QH505
  classification: 571.4
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Biological and Medical Physics Biomedical Engineering
  identifier: 9780387272702
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138851
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204182732.0
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