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Abstract
Nucleic acid sequences may be looked upon as words over the alphabet of nucleotides. Naturally occurring DNAs and RNAs form subsets of the set of all possible words. The use of formal languages is proposed to describe the structure of these subsets. Regular languages defined by finite automata are introduced to demonstrate the application of the concept on RNA-phages of group I. This approach permits a concise characterization of grammatical patterns in genetic information.Mesh:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6200832 PMCID: PMC318685 DOI: 10.1093/nar/12.5.2561
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971