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Flexible Versus Rigid Tile Assembly

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Unconventional Computation (UC 2006)

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DNA molecules have been assembled in rigid DX and TX molecules, arrayed in assemblies similar to Wang tiles, and, as flexible branched junction molecules with flexible arms have been used in assemblies representing arbitrary graphs. This paper considers both models of rigid and flexible tiles. A model representing complexes assembled out of rigid tiles based on tile displacements is presented. This presentation is used to simulate computations obtained from (bounded) rigid tile self-assembly by corresponding assemblies of flexible tiles.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620

    Nataša Jonoska & Gregory L. McColm

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand

    Cristian S. Calude

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, 92019, Auckland, New Zealand

    Michael J. Dinneen

  3. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, PO Box 1-764, 014700, Bucureşti, Romania

    Gheorghe Păun

  4. Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

  5. Dept. of Computer Science, University of York,  

    Susan Stepney

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Jonoska, N., McColm, G.L. (2006). Flexible Versus Rigid Tile Assembly. In: Calude, C.S., Dinneen, M.J., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Stepney, S. (eds) Unconventional Computation. UC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4135. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11839132_12

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