Abstract
The translation system in a cell is a powerful molecular machine conducted by ribosomes, tRNAs, and several translation factors to synthesize proteins. The translation process is very accurate according to the genetic code and directed from 5′-end to 3′-end on messenger RNA. We employ the translation mechanism combined with four-base codon techniques to develop a molecular machine which computes finite automata (finite-state machine). We report some experimental results where we have succeeded to implement a finite automaton on an E. coli in vitro translation system with four-base codons.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 197-202 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
| Volume | 2943 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 Dec 1 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Science(all)