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On the computational power of insertion-deletion systems

Akihiro Takahara, +1 more
- 02 Dec 2003 - 
- Vol. 2, Iss: 4, pp 321-336
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The generative power of insertion-deletion systems (InsDel systems) is investigated, and it is shown that the family INS11DEL11 is equal to the family of recursively enumerable languages.
Abstract
Gene insertion and deletion are basic phenomena found in DNA processing or RNA editing in molecular biology. The genetic mechanism and development based on these evolutionary transformations have been formulated as a formal system with two operations of insertion and deletion, called insertion-deletion systems (Kari and Thierrin, 1996; Kari et al., 1997). We investigate the generative power of insertion-deletion systems (InsDel systems), and show that the family INS11 DEL11 is equal to the family of recursively enumerable languages. This gives a positive answer to an open problem posed in Kari et al. (1997) where it was conjectured contrary.

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Further Results on Insertion-Deletion Systems with One-Sided Contexts

TL;DR: The remaining open problem concerning the generative power of insertion-deletion systems having both contexts is solved by proving the computational completeness of systems having a context-free insertion of two symbols and a contextual deletion of one symbol.
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Contextual Insertions/Deletions and Computability

TL;DR: It is proved that every Turing machine can be simulated by a system based entirely on contextual insertions and deletions and decidability of existence of solutions to equations involving these operations.