DNA, dichotomic classes and frame synchronization: A quasi-crystal framework

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1969, 2012, Pages 2987-3006

  Giannerini, Simone ^a   Gonzalez, Diego Luis ^a,b   Rosa, Rodolfo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dichotomic classes; DNA coding sequences; Frame synchronization; Ribosome; Supervized learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DNA; GENE ENCODING; GROUP THEORY; MACROMOLECULES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMBER THEORY; PROTEINS; QUASICRYSTALS;

DICHOTOMIC CLASSES; DNA CODING; FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION; RIBOSOME; SUPERVIZED LEARNING;

DNA SEQUENCES;

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84861953102     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0387     Document Type: Review

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