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PLOS ONE
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009511
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- AIRC (Italian Association for Cancer Research)
- European Community
- Monzino Foundation
- Ferrari Foundation
- Cariplo Foundation
- Italian Ministry of University and Research
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We propose a formal language that allows for transposing biological information precisely and rigorously into machine-readable information. This language, which we call Zsyntax (where Z stands for the Greek word zeta omega eta, life), is grounded on a particular type of non-classical logic, and it can be used to write algorithms and computer programs. We present it as a first step towards a comprehensive formal language for molecular biology in which any biological process can be written and analyzed as a sort of logical deduction''. Moreover, we illustrate the potential value of this language, both in the field of text mining and in that of biological prediction.
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