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Genetic nets and dissipative structures: An algebraic approach

  • Paper from the Dissipative Structures Section of the Tenth Symposium on Biomathematics and Computer Science in the Life Sciences, University of Texas, Houston. March 29–31, 1973
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Genetic nets represent an attempt to model genome structure. Depending on the interaction dynamics assumed, they can constitute highly non-linear chemical systems having multiple steady states; hence their relevance to the theory of dissipative structures. Their typical size and possible complexity makes it difficult to study them by means of customary analytical techniques based on differential equations. We have therefore considered an algebraic approach derived from regarding the nets as finite-state automata. This view has revealed a surprisingly rich algebraic structure which can be used to investigate problems concerned with the relation between biological structure and function. This algebraic structure is described with particular reference to the genetic nets of Tsanev and Sendov.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, 94143, San Francisco, California

    Hugo M. Martinez & Gunnar Carlsson

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Proceedings article from the Dissipative Structures Section of the Tenth Symposium on Biomathematics and Computer Science in the Life Sciences, University of Texas, Houston. March 29–31, 1973. Symposium Chairman: Stuart O. Zimmerman. Session Chairman and Proceedings Editors: Charles Walter and Hugo M. Martinez.

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Martinez, H.M., Carlsson, G. Genetic nets and dissipative structures: An algebraic approach. Bltn Mathcal Biology 36, 183–196 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02458602

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