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GCB 1996: Bioinformatics pp 199–209Cite as

Evolutionary grammars: A grammatical model for genome evolution

  • Formal Languages and DNA
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Abstract

We introduce a grammatical model for the evolution of genomes on the basis of gene mutations and chromosome mutations and present some properties of such grammars. Few problems which might be biologically relevant are discussed from the computational point of view. On the other hand, the paper suggests a new direction in formal language theory motivated by the common operations of genome evolution.

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  1. Fakultät für Informatik, OtOtto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, P.O.Box 4120, D-39016, Magdeburg, Germany

    Jüirgen Dassow

  2. Faculty of Mathematics, Department of Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Str. Academiei 14, R-70109, Bucharest, Romania

    Victor Mitrana

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Ralf Hofestädt Thomas Lengauer Markus Löffler Dietmar Schomburg

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Dassow, J., Mitrana, V. (1997). Evolutionary grammars: A grammatical model for genome evolution. In: Hofestädt, R., Lengauer, T., Löffler, M., Schomburg, D. (eds) Bioinformatics. GCB 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0033218

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