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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2-3
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-10-10
pubmed:abstractText
Evolution has created the complexity of the animate world and deciphering the language of evolution is the key towards understanding nature. The dynamics of evolution is simplified by considering it as a superposition of three less sophisticated processes: population dynamics, population support dynamics, and genotype-phenotype mapping. Evolution of molecules in laboratory assays provides a sufficiently simple system for the quantitative analysis of the three phenomena. Coarse-grained notions of structures like RNA secondary structures are used as model phenotypes. They provide an excellent tool for a comprehensive analysis of the entire complex of molecular evolution. The mapping from RNA genotypes into secondary structures is highly redundant. In order to find at least one sequence for every common structures one need only search a (relatively) small part of sequence space. The existence of selectively neutral phenotypes plays an important role for the the success and the efficiency of evolutionary optimization. Molecular evolution found a highly promising technological application in the design of biomolecules with predefined properties.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0301-4622
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
30
pubmed:volume
66
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
75-110
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Genotypes with phenotypes: adventures in an RNA toy world.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut für Theoretische Chemie und Strahlenchemie, Universität Wien, A-1090 Wien, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article