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Assessment of Immunologically Relevant Dynamic Tertiary Structural Features of the HIV-1 V3 Loop Crown R2 Sequence by ab initio Folding
Published on: September 15, 2010
Mathematical folding of node chains in a molecular network
1Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center (KARC), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan. hsuzuki@nict.go.jp
Abstract:
Under the framework of network artificial chemistry (NAC), a method to construct a phenotypic machine from genotypic information is proposed. The genotype is expressed as a sequence of nodes (a node chain) with symbol data. According to an implemented algorithm, a chain is agglomerated, tangled, and finally folded into a node cluster that works as a control-flow machine in the network. Two examples of control-flow clusters, splitase and replicase, are presented and their functionality is demonstrated. Several meanings and future research directions are discussed.
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