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New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium 2001
December 3-6, 2001
Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand

Organizers
Dr I. Boglaev, Dr M. Carter, Dr J. Hudson, Dr C. Little (convenor), Ass. Prof R. McLachlan, Ass. Prof C. Lai

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Evolving RNA
by
Paul Gardner
Massey University
Coauthors: Mike Hendy, David Penny

Minimum free energy techniques of predicting RNA secondary structure provides a unique opportunity to systematically explore the phenotypic fitness of various genotypes. In addition recent experiments utilising the principle of an adaptive walk on a fitness landscape have shown that a population of RNA sequences with certain desirable characteristics can be ``evolved'' either in-silicate (test tube) or in-silco (computer).

I intend to present results that explore fundamental biological questions using these concepts and computational techniques.

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Date received: October 24, 2001

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