The evolution of complexity in self-maintaining cellular information processing networks

We examine the role of self-maintenance (collective autocatalysis) in the evolution of computational biochemical networks. In primitive proto-cells (lacking separate genetic machinery) self-maintenance is a necessary condition for the direct reproduction and inheritance of what we here term Cellular...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Decraene, James, McMullin, Barry
Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93823
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6873