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A hybrid model for DNA: mathematical analysis

Huen, Y.K.
Abstract
     Abstract In a previous online paper in Complexity International, the author has developed the general theory of k-nary strings of which DNA as 4-nary strings are members of this family. Therefore properties of k-nary strings must be applicable to DNA when viewed as strings. But DNA must also satisfy biochemical properties from its biomolecular model. From the theory of k-nary strings, the theory of genomic instability was developed which enables one to compute the level of instability of a genome using a defined unit of measurment called Compressibility Ratio of Comprat. As Comprat is a wholistic unit of measurement, this suggests the emergence of a hybrid model for DNA incorporating both reductionistic and wholistic properties. Mathematically speaking, for such a hybrid model to work properly, reductionistic and wholistic proofs must be nonintersecting. The hybrid model could signal the emergence of a new type of complex system not covered by any existing definition in Complexity Theory.



 
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    Huen, Y.K. (2001), A hybrid model for DNA: mathematical analysis, Complexity International, Volume 10, Paper ID: yeongk02, URL: http://www.complexity.org.au/ci/vol10/yeongk02/
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