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Infobiotics

Part of the Emergence, Complexity and Computation Book Series (volume 3)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36223-1

ISBN: 978-3-642-36222-4

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2013

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Discrete Information and Life

Manca, Vincenzo

Pages: 3 –26

[Information and life are intrinsically related and many challenges for a deep understanding of life phenomena require analyzing the role of information, and its specific mechanisms, in biological systems. In this chapter, the main kinds of discrete informational structures will be informally...
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Strings and Genomes

Manca, Vincenzo

Pages: 27 –105

[Strings constitute the mathematical structures of informational biopolymers. Genomes are long strings (hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of characters) built over the four nucleotides, and many typical operations over genomes are naturally expressed by string operations. In this...
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Algorithms and Biorhythms

Manca, Vincenzo

Pages: 107 –168

[Algorithms define computation processes, while biorhythms constitute the dynamic of life. This chapter aims at showing the links between these two concepts, by giving examples where biorhythms can be described by suitable algorithms. Metabolismis the starting point of the analysis we develop,...
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Life Strategies

Manca, Vincenzo

Pages: 169 –211

[Life is based on complex systems interacting with environments. In order to guarantee their existence, these systems developed sophisticated strategies that solve problems by introducing new problems. This is a peculiar aspect of life complexity that sounds paradoxical in many aspects. In this...
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Numbers and Measures

Manca, Vincenzo

Pages: 215 –271

[Numbers are the essence of any mathematization process. They measure entities, but also provide rigorous frameworks for analyzing the notion of infinity; the set of natural numbers is the first example of infinity. Finiteness and infinity, which very often appear in dialectic aporias, underly...
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Languages and Grammars

Manca, Vincenzo

Pages: 273 –307

[Strings are sequences on which some specific operations are defined. The most important operation over strings is the concatenation. If α and β are two strings, their concatenation, usually denoted by αβ, is the sequence where the last element of α is followed by the elements of β, in the order...
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Combinations and Chances

Manca, Vincenzo

Pages: 309 –368

[Combinatorics is the field of mathematics which provides methods for counting discrete structures of a given type. The exact evaluation of these numbers has very often a great importance in many theoretical and applicative contexts. In this chapter the basic formulae of combinatorics will be...

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