title: Extended Backus-systems for the representation and specification of the genome.
abstract: In this theoretical paper, we focus to the usage of formal languages and define an extended Backus-System which will allow an adequate representation of molecular data. Furthermore, based on this new formalization we try to define the "complexity of organisms". Our results show that this formalization is useful for the syntactical specification of the genome interpreted as a formal language.
authors.affiliation: AG Bioinformatics, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25 33615, Bielefeld, Germany. hofestae@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hofestädt
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004247:DNA