Bond-Free Languages: Formalizations, Maximality and Construction Methods
Bond-Free Languages: Formalizations, Maximality and Construction Methods
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无键语言:形式化、最大化和构造方法
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10.1007/11493785_15
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发表时间:
2004
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通讯作者:
Petr Sosík
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作者:
L. Kari;S. Konstantinidis;Petr Sosík
The problem of negative design of DNA languages is addressed, that is, properties and construction methods of large sets of words that prevent undesired bonds when used in DNA computations. We recall a few existing formalizations of the problem and then define the property of sim-bond-freedom, where sim is a similarity relation between words. We show that this property is decidable for context-free languages and polynomial-time decidable for regular languages. The maximality of this property also turns out to be decidable for regular languages and polynomial-time decidable for an important case of the Hamming similarity. Then we consider various construction methods for Hamming bond-free languages, including the recently introduced method of templates, and obtain a complete structural characterization of all maximal Hamming bond-free languages. This result is applicable to the θ-k-code property introduced by Jonoska and Mahalingam.