Overview
- Makes underlying biology very accessible to computer science and mathematics students
- First book/monograph on Computation in Living Cells
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Natural Computing Series (NCS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biological Background
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Front Matter
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Formal Modelling of Gene Assembly
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Front Matter
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Properties of Gene Assembly
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Front Matter
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Epilogue
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Keywords
About this book
Natural Computing is concerned with computation that is taking place in Nature. The investigation of computations in living cells is one of the central and fastest growing areas of research in this field. Gene assembly in ciliates (unicellular organisms) is a splendid example of such computations, and it is fascinating from both the biological and the computational viewpoints. As a matter of fact, both biology and the science of computation have benefited from the interdisciplinary research on the computational nature of gene assembly – this work has helped to clarify important biological aspects of gene assembly, yielded novel insights into the nature of computation, and broadened our understanding of what computation is about.
This monograph gives an accessible account of both the biology and the formal analysis of the gene assembly process. It can be used as a textbook for either graduate courses or seminars.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Rozenberg is multiple Springer author/editor of, e.g., the LNCS series Advances in Petri Nets, of ICALP proceedings, of "DNA Computing – New Computing Paradigms" by George Paun, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa, of the "Handbook of Formal Languages" edited by Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa (3 volumes). Rozenberg is also founding editor of the EATCS Texts and Monographs Series and the Natural Computing Series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computation in Living Cells
Book Subtitle: Gene Assembly in Ciliates
Authors: Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Tero Harju, Ion Petre, David M. Prescott, Grzegorz Rozenberg
Series Title: Natural Computing Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06371-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-40795-9Published: 27 October 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07401-1Published: 06 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-06371-2Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1619-7127
Series E-ISSN: 2627-6461
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 202
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Computation by Abstract Devices, Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cell Biology, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences