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Analysis of Fucosylated Human Milk Trisaccharides in Biotechnological Context Using Genetically Encoded Biosensors
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Use of Boolean and fuzzy logics in lactose glycocluster research
Harikrishna Bavireddi1, Priya Bharate, Raghavendra Kikkeri
1Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune 411021, India. rkikkeri@iiserpune.ac.in.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 31, 2013
Abstract:
Fuzzy logic systems can be exploited for defining the degrees of true or false binding between calcium mediated multivalent lactose and peanut agglutinin lectin, which are difficult to define with Boolean logic.
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