Grammars and Automata for String Processing - From Mathematics and Computer Science to Biology, and Back (Hardcover, New)

The volume is devoted to a very young field born at the crossroads of molecular biology, linguistics, computer science, and mathematics. Essentially, the contributions in this volume address the structural (syntactical) view of the domain. In this respect, mathematical linguistics and computer science can offer a large variety of adequate tools for modelling complex macromolecules, for analysing and simulating biological ussues. The common trend so far was that biology influenced mathematics and computer science. Now, more and more approaches are parts of a general process of transferring methods and tools from computer science to biology, which corresponds to the reverse influence. The contribuitions in this volume follow such a new trend.