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Biochemical Reactions as Computations

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Computation and Logic in the Real World (CiE 2007)

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Two main mechanisms behind the functioning of biochemical reactions are facilitation and inhibition; these mechanisms are also central for the interaction between biochemical reactions. This observation underlies the theory of reaction systems which is a formal framework for the investigation of biochemical reactions, and especially interactions between them.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

    Andrzej Ehrenfeucht & Grzegorz Rozenberg

  2. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

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  1. Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
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  1. Dept. of Pure Mathematics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    S. Barry Cooper

  2. Institue for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), Universiteit van Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018, TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Benedikt Löwe

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche ed Informatiche “R. Magari”, University of Siena, 53100, Siena, Italy

    Andrea Sorbi

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Ehrenfeucht, A., Rozenberg, G. (2007). Biochemical Reactions as Computations. In: Cooper, S.B., Löwe, B., Sorbi, A. (eds) Computation and Logic in the Real World. CiE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73001-9_70

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