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Splicing Test Tube Systems and Their Relation to Splicing Membrane Systems

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Aspects of Molecular Computing

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We consider a variant of test tube systems communicating by applying splicing rules, yet without allowing operations in the tubes themselves. These test tube systems communicating by applying splicing rules of some restricted type are shown to be equivalent to a variant of splicing test tube systems using a corresponding restricted type of splicing rules. Both variants of test tube systems using splicing rules are proved to be equivalent to membrane systems with splicing rules assigned to membranes, too. In all the systems considered in this paper, for the application of rules leading from one configuration to the succeeding configuration we use a sequential model, where only one splicing rule is applied in one step; moreover, all these systems have universal computational power.

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  1. Gymnasium der Schulbrüder, Strebersdorf, Anton Böck-Gasse 37, A-1215, Wien, Austria

    Franziska Freund

  2. Department of Computer Science, Technical University Wien, Favoritenstrasse 9, A-1040, Wien, Austria

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  3. Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands

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Freund, F., Freund, R., Oswald, M. (2003). Splicing Test Tube Systems and Their Relation to Splicing Membrane Systems. In: Jonoska, N., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Aspects of Molecular Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2950. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24635-0_10

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