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Linguistic Thinking on DNA as Programming Language

Language, Literature and Culture
Vol.1 , No. 1, Publication Date: May 16, 2018, Page: 23-29

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[1]	Yanqiu Tong, Department of Humanity School, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China.
[2]	Tianyi Zhang, Department of Foreign Language School, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China.
[3]	Yufei Deng, Department of Foreign Language School, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China.
[4]	Yang Song, Department of Device Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.

Abstract

Recent years lots of research have pay focus on multitude of formal languages and systems applied to biology, thus gaining insight into the biological systems under study through analysis and simulation. And in information processing field, well-designed DNA circuits have been implemented in DNA by using strand displacement as their main computational mechanism. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the linguistic character of programming language for designing and simulating DNA strand displacement. In which strand displacement is the main computational mechanism. A compared method was introduced for compare with human language and DNA. And the genetic mechanism was described as a magical language that can be considered as human language. In conclusion, DNA strand displacement as programming language has the property of human language.

Keywords

DNA, Language, Strand Displacement

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