On the Logic and Geometry of Bilinear Forms

Issue title: Contagious Creativity – In Honor of the 80th Birthday of Professor Solomon Marcus

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Manca, Vincenzo

Affiliations: Università di Verona, Dipartimento di Informatica, Ca' Vignal 2, Strada Le Grazie, 15 – 37134 Verona, Italy. [email protected]

Note: [] Address for correspondence: Università di Verona, Dipartimento di Informatica, Ca' Vignal 2, Strada Le Grazie, 15 37134 Verona, Italy

Abstract: The double stranded structure of DNA molecules is investigated in an abstract setting. Only the general structure of bilinear strings is taken into account regardless of specific physical and biochemical aspects of DNA molecules. In this context, the principles which DNA processes are based on are formulated in an abstract form. Surprisingly enough, some intrinsic features of DNA molecules turn out to be implied by these general principles.

Keywords: DNA structure, bilinearity, complementarity, antiparallelism, DNA helix, DNA computing

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 64, no. 1-4, pp. 261-273, 2005