PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Word Blending and Other Formal Models of Bio-operationsExport this event to calendar

Friday, August 19, 2022 — 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Zihao Wang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lila Kari

As part of ongoing efforts to view biological processes as computations, several formal models of DNA-based processes have been proposed and studied in the formal language literature. A new word operation inspired by a DNA recombination lab protocol called Cross-pairing Polymerase Chain Reaction (XPCR) and its variations were proposed. More precisely, the word operation called word blending models a special case of XPCR, where two words xwu and vwy sharing a non-empty overlap part w generate the word xwy. This phenomenon was also found in linguistics under the name portmanteau (e.g., smoke + fog = smog). The word operation called conjugate word blending is a more restricted version of word blending, where u and v are required to be the same non-empty word. We studied the closure properties of the Chomsky families of languages under these operations, the iterated version of word blending, the existence of a solution to equations involving this operation, and its state complexity.


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200 University Avenue West

Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
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