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Simulating P systems with membrane dissolution in a chemical calculus

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We present a transformation of membrane systems, possibly with promoter/inhibitor rules, priority relations, and membrane dissolution, into formulas of the chemical calculus such that terminating computations of membranes correspond to terminating reduction sequences of formulas and vice versa. In the end, the same result can be extracted from the underlying computation of the membrane system as from the reduction sequence of the chemical term.

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The work of the authors from Iasi was supported by the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0919.

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Aman, B., Battyányi, P., Ciobanu, G. et al. Simulating P systems with membrane dissolution in a chemical calculus. Nat Comput 15, 521–532 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-016-9570-5

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