Abstract
Bilinearity, complementarity and antiparallelism of the double stranded DNA structure are proved, in a general and abstract setting, as requirements of an efficient duplication algorithm for ‘mobile strings’.
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Franco, G., Manca, V. An algorithmic analysis of DNA structure. Soft Comput 9, 761–768 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-004-0441-0
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