On the syntactic structure of protein sequences and the concept of grammar complexity (Q801840)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3880491
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On the syntactic structure of protein sequences and the concept of grammar complexity
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3880491

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    On the syntactic structure of protein sequences and the concept of grammar complexity (English)
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    1984
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    It is shown that the concepts of grammar complexity and syntactic structure provide a useful mathematical framework for the investigation of some current problems in protein structure. Grammar complexity gives a measure of the degree of aperiodicity of a sequence and also an optimization criterion for evaluating amino acid categorizations. Three systems of amino acid categorization are compared in relation to their value for describing molecular architecture.
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    grammar complexity
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    syntactic structure
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    protein structure
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    degree of aperiodicity
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    amino acid categorizations
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    molecular architecture
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