Watson-crick context-free grammars: Grammar simplifications and a parsing algorithm

Nurul Liyana Mohamad Zulkufli, Sherzod Turaev, Mohd Izzuddin Mohd Tamrin, Azeddine Messikh

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Abstract

A Watson-Crick (WK) context-free grammar, a context-free grammar with productions whose right-hand sides contain nonterminals and double-stranded terminal strings, generates complete double-stranded strings under Watson-Crick complementarity. In this paper, we investigate the simplification processes of Watson-Crick context-free grammars, which lead to defining Chomskylike normal form for Watson-Crick context-free grammars. The main result of the paper is a modified CYK (Cocke-Younger-Kasami) algorithm for Watson-Crick context-free grammars in WK-Chomsky normal form, allowing to parse double-stranded strings in O(n6) time.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1361-1373
Number of pages13
JournalComputer Journal
Volume61
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 1 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Context-free grammars
  • DNA computing
  • Formal languages
  • Grammar simplifications
  • Parsing algorithms
  • Watson-Crick automata
  • Watson-Crick grammars

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science(all)

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