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We study properties of string operations motivated by the gene assembly process of ciliates. We examine the effect of these operations applied to finite multisets of words which make it possible to study not only sequential, but also different types of parallel derivation strategies. We compare the classes of finite languages which can be obtained by the different strategies, and show that although the string operations we consider are reversible, their parallel application can produce effects resembling the irreversibility of the biological process of gene assembly in ciliates.
Research supported in part by the Intergovernmental S&T Cooperation Programme of the Office of Research and Development Division of the Hungarian Ministry of Education and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) under grant no. D-35/2000 and by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, “OTKA”, under grant no. F 037567.
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Dassow, J., Vaszil, G. (2006). Ciliate Bio-operations on Finite String Multisets. In: Ibarra, O.H., Dang, Z. (eds) Developments in Language Theory. DLT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4036. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11779148_16
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