Protein Synthesis Algorithm and a New Metaphor for Selecting Optimum Tools

Abstract

With assistance from DNA, mRNA, tRNA, RNA polymerase and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, biological systems synthesize amino acids in a particular sequence to produce a specific protein for a particular activity. On the other hand, using the parameters of some physical objects, such as, namely, parts design, machine tools, cutting tools and their machinability data, optimum tool selection for machining a particular part is accomplished. Analogizing the optimum tool selection process to the protein synthesis process, the above-mentioned objects were organized using the Protein Synthesis Algorithm derived from the protein synthesis mechanism. Unlike other related methods, this new method uses only a single database and avoids complex simulations. From an experiment in which the Protein Synthesis Algorithm was applied to turning tool selection, the claimed lucidity and straightforwardness of this method was confirmed.