Information Processing And Biological Systems

Author : Stephan L. Mintz,Arnold Perlmutter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 168 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461325154

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Information Processing in Biological Systems by Stephan L. Mintz,Arnold Perlmutter Pdf

This volume contains the greater part of the papers submitted to the Information Processing in Biology portion of the 1983 Orbis Scientiae, then dedicated to the eightieth year of Professor P.A.M. Dirac. Before the volume could be published, Professor Dirac passed away on October 20, 1984, thereby changing the dedica tion of this volume, and its companion, on High Energy Physics, to his everlasting memory. The last Orbis Scientiae (as it was often in the past) was shared by two frontier fields - in this case by High Energy Physics and Information Processing in Biology, demonstrating the universality of scientific principles and goals. The interaction amongst scientists of diverse interests can only enhance the fruitfulness of their efforts. The editors take pride in the modest contribution of Orbis Scientiae towards this goal. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the typing of these proceedings by Regelio Rodriguez and Helga Billings, and the customary excellent supervision by the latter. The efficient preparation and organiza tion of the conference was due largely to the skill and dedication of Linda Scott. As in the past, Orbis Scientiae 1983 received nominal support from the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

Author : Samuli Niiranen,Andre Ribeiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642196218

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Information Processing and Biological Systems by Samuli Niiranen,Andre Ribeiro Pdf

Living beings require constant information processing for survival. In cells, information is being processed and propagated at various levels, from the gene regulatory network to chemical pathways, to the interaction with the environment. How this is achieved and how information is coded is still poorly understood. For example, what a cell interprets as information in the temporal level of an mRNA and what is interpreted as noise remains an open question. Recently, information theoretical methods and other tools, developed in the context of engineering and natural sciences, have been applied to study diverse biological processes. This book covers the latest findings on how information is processed in various biological processes, ranging from information processing and propagation in gene regulatory networks to information processing in natural language. An overview is presented of the state-of-the-art in information processing in biological systems and the opinion of current leaders in this research field on future research directions.

Author : Samuli Niiranen,André Ribeiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642196225

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Information Processing and Biological Systems by Samuli Niiranen,André Ribeiro Pdf

Author : Vladimir B. Baji?,Tin Wee Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781860945632

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Information Processing and Living Systems by Vladimir B. Baji?,Tin Wee Tan Pdf

Information processing and information flow occur in the course of an organism's development and throughout its lifespan. Organisms do not exist in isolation, but interact with each other constantly within a complex ecosystem. The relationships between organisms, such as those between prey or predator, host and parasite, and between mating partners, are complex and multidimensional. In all cases, there is constant communication and information flow at many levels.This book focuses on information processing by life forms and the use of information technology in understanding them. Readers are first given a comprehensive overview of biocomputing before navigating the complex terrain of natural processing of biological information using physiological and analogous computing models. The remainder of the book deals with ?artificial? processing of biological information as a human endeavor in order to derive new knowledge and gain insight into life forms and their functioning. Specific innovative applications and tools for biological discovery are provided as the link and complement to biocomputing.Since ?artificial? processing of biological information is complementary to natural processing, a better understanding of the former helps us improve the latter. Consequently, readers are exposed to both domains and, when dealing with biological problems of their interest, will be better equipped to grasp relevant ideas.

Author : Stephan L Mintz,Arnold Perlmutter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461325161

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Information Processing in Biological Systems by Stephan L Mintz,Arnold Perlmutter Pdf

Author : Klaus Haefner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642772115

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Evolution of Information Processing Systems by Klaus Haefner Pdf

An interdisciplinary team of scientists is presenting a new paradigm: all existing structures on earth are the consequence of information processing. Since these structures have been evolved over the last five billion years, information processing and its systems have an evolution.This is under consideration in the book. Starting with a basic paper which summarizes the essential hypotheses about the evolution of informaion processing systems, sixteen international scientists have tried to verify or falsify these hypothesises. This has been done at the physical, the chemical, the genetic, the neural, the social, the societal and the socio-technical level. Thus, the reader gets an insight into the recent status of research on the evolution of information processing systems. The papers are the result of an interdisciplinary project in which scientists of the classical disciplines have been invited to collaborate. Their inputs have been intensively discussed in a workshop. The book is the output of the workshop. The first goal of the bookis to give the reader an insight into basic principles about the evolution of information processing systems. This, however, leads directly to a very old and essential question: who is controlling the world, "matter" or an "immaterial intelligence"? Several authors of the papers are arguing that there is a basic concept of information processing in nature. This is the crucial process, which, however, needs a material basis. The reader has a chance to understand this paradigm as an approach which is valid for all levels of inorganic, organic and societal structures. This provocative concept is open to debate.

Author : C. H. Waddington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351297141

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Biological Processes in Living Systems by C. H. Waddington Pdf

Biological Processes in Living Systems is the fourth and final volume of the Toward a Theoretical Biology series. It contains essays that deal in detail with particular biological processes: morphogenesis of pattern, the development of neuronal networks, evolutionary processes, and others. The main thrust of this volume brings relevance to the general underlying nature of living systems. Faced with trying to understand how the complexity of molecular microstates leads to the relative simplicity of phenome structures, Waddington-on behalf of his colleagues-stresses on the structure of language as a paradigm for a theory of general biology. This is language in an imperative mood: a set of symbols, organized by some form of generative grammar, making possible the conveyance of commands for action to produce effects on the surroundings of the emitting and the receiving entities. "Biology," he writes, "is concerned with algorithm and program." Among the contributions in this volume are: "The Riemann-Hugoniot Catastrophe and van der Waals Equation," David H. Fowler; "Differential Equations for the Heartbeat and Nerve Impulse," E. Christopher Zeeman; "Structuralism and Biology," Rene Thom; "The Concept of Positional Information and Pattern Formation," Lewis Wolpert; "Pattern Formation in Fibroblast Cultures," Tom Elsdale; "Form and Information," C. H. Waddington; "Organizational Principles for Theoretical Neurophysiology," Michael A. Arbib; "Stochastic Models of Neuroelectric Activity," Jack D. Cowan. Biological Processes in Living Systems is a pioneering volume by recognized leaders in an ever-growing field.

Author : Mike Holcombe,Ray Paton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461553458

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Information Processing in Cells and Tissues by Mike Holcombe,Ray Paton Pdf

Proceedings of an International Workshop held in Sheffield, UK, September 1-4, 1997

Author : Vladimir B. Baji?,Tin Wee Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781860945632

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Information Processing and Living Systems by Vladimir B. Baji?,Tin Wee Tan Pdf

Information processing and information flow occur in the course of an organism's development and throughout its lifespan. Organisms do not exist in isolation, but interact with each other constantly within a complex ecosystem. The relationships between organisms, such as those between prey or predator, host and parasite, and between mating partners, are complex and multidimensional. In all cases, there is constant communication and information flow at many levels.This book focuses on information processing by life forms and the use of information technology in understanding them. Readers are first given a comprehensive overview of biocomputing before navigating the complex terrain of natural processing of biological information using physiological and analogous computing models. The remainder of the book deals with ?artificial? processing of biological information as a human endeavor in order to derive new knowledge and gain insight into life forms and their functioning. Specific innovative applications and tools for biological discovery are provided as the link and complement to biocomputing.Since ?artificial? processing of biological information is complementary to natural processing, a better understanding of the former helps us improve the latter. Consequently, readers are exposed to both domains and, when dealing with biological problems of their interest, will be better equipped to grasp relevant ideas.

Author : George Terzis,Robert Arp
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262295130

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Information and Living Systems by George Terzis,Robert Arp Pdf

The informational nature of biological organization, at levels from the genetic and epigenetic to the cognitive and linguistic. Information shapes biological organization in fundamental ways and at every organizational level. Because organisms use information—including DNA codes, gene expression, and chemical signaling—to construct, maintain, repair, and replicate themselves, it would seem only natural to use information-related ideas in our attempts to understand the general nature of living systems, the causality by which they operate, the difference between living and inanimate matter, and the emergence, in some biological species, of cognition, emotion, and language. And yet philosophers and scientists have been slow to do so. This volume fills that gap. Information and Living Systems offers a collection of original chapters in which scientists and philosophers discuss the informational nature of biological organization at levels ranging from the genetic to the cognitive and linguistic. The chapters examine not only familiar information-related ideas intrinsic to the biological sciences but also broader information-theoretic perspectives used to interpret their significance. The contributors represent a range of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, chemistry, cognitive science, information theory, philosophy, psychology, and systems theory, thus demonstrating the deeply interdisciplinary nature of the volume's bioinformational theme.

Author : Francesco Musumeci,Larissa S. Brizhik,Mae-Wan Ho
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812384195

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Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems by Francesco Musumeci,Larissa S. Brizhik,Mae-Wan Ho Pdf

This volume contains papers based on the workshop ?Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding?, held in Italy in 2002. The meeting was a forum aimed at evaluating the potential and outlooks of a modern physics approach to understanding and describing biological processes, especially regarding the transition from the microscopic chemical scenario to the macroscopic functional configurations of living matter. In this frame some leading researchers presented and discussed several basic topics, such as the photon interaction with biological systems also from the viewpoint of photon information processes and of possible applications; the influence of electromagnetic fields on the self-organization of biosystems including the nonlinear mechanism for energy transfer and storage; and the influence of the structure of water on the properties of biological matter.

Author : Francesco Musumeci,Larissa S Brizhik,Mae-Wan Ho
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814485647

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Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems by Francesco Musumeci,Larissa S Brizhik,Mae-Wan Ho Pdf

This volume contains papers based on the workshop “Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding”, held in Italy in 2002. The meeting was a forum aimed at evaluating the potential and outlooks of a modern physics approach to understanding and describing biological processes, especially regarding the transition from the microscopic chemical scenario to the macroscopic functional configurations of living matter. In this frame some leading researchers presented and discussed several basic topics, such as the photon interaction with biological systems also from the viewpoint of photon information processes and of possible applications; the influence of electromagnetic fields on the self-organization of biosystems including the nonlinear mechanism for energy transfer and storage; and the influence of the structure of water on the properties of biological matter. Contents:Soliton Mechanism of Charge, Energy and Information Transfer in Biosystems (L Brizhik)Delayed Luminescence and Motional Harmonicity (L Cordone et al.)62 AMEV Proton Beam for the Treatment of Ocular Melanoma at LNS — INFN (G Cuttone et al.)Search for Quantum and Classical Modes of Information Processing in Microtubules: Implications for “the Living State” (S Hameroff et al.)From ‘Molecular Machines’ to Coherent Organisms (M-W Ho)On the Physics of Ultraweak Bioluminescence and Intercellular Photon Signaling (V S Letokhov & A L Dobryakov)Nonlinearity in Biological Systems: How Can Physics Help? (A A Marino & C Frilot)Life as a Fourth Level of Quantum Organization of Nature (S P Sit'ko)Concept of Photon Storage Capacity in Cell Biology (R van Wijk)and other papers Readership: Graduate students and researchers in physics and biology. Keywords:Biophysics;Delayed Luminescence;Consciousness;Structure of Water;Electromagnetic Field and Biology;Nonlinearity in Biological Systems;Solitons in Biological Systems;Information and Life

Author : Eytan Domany,J. Leo van Hemmen,Klaus Schulten
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461243205

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Models of Neural Networks by Eytan Domany,J. Leo van Hemmen,Klaus Schulten Pdf

Since the appearance of Vol. 1 of Models of Neural Networks in 1991, the theory of neural nets has focused on two paradigms: information coding through coherent firing of the neurons and functional feedback. Information coding through coherent neuronal firing exploits time as a cardinal degree of freedom. This capacity of a neural network rests on the fact that the neuronal action potential is a short, say 1 ms, spike, localized in space and time. Spatial as well as temporal correlations of activity may represent different states of a network. In particular, temporal correlations of activity may express that neurons process the same "object" of, for example, a visual scene by spiking at the very same time. The traditional description of a neural network through a firing rate, the famous S-shaped curve, presupposes a wide time window of, say, at least 100 ms. It thus fails to exploit the capacity to "bind" sets of coherently firing neurons for the purpose of both scene segmentation and figure-ground segregation. Feedback is a dominant feature of the structural organization of the brain. Recurrent neural networks have been studied extensively in the physical literature, starting with the ground breaking work of John Hop field (1982).

Author : Martin Ziegler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031367052

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Bio-Inspired Information Pathways by Martin Ziegler Pdf

Author : Michael A. Lones,Stephen L. Smith,Sarah Teichmann,Felix Naef,Jonathan Oliver,Martin Albrecht Trefzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642287923

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Information Processing in Cells and Tissues by Michael A. Lones,Stephen L. Smith,Sarah Teichmann,Felix Naef,Jonathan Oliver,Martin Albrecht Trefzer Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT 2012, held in Cambridge, UK, in March/April 2012. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 26 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in disciplines related to genetic and epigenetic networks, transcriptomics and gene regulation, signalling pathways and responses, protein structure and metabolic networks, patterning and rhythm generation, neural modelling and neural networks, biomedical modelling and signal processing, information processing and representation, and algorithmic approaches in computational biology.