Month: September 2022

"CENTRIOLES could act as information carriers throughout generations. The discovery raises the possibility that transmission of biological information could involve more than just genes." https://lnkd.in/eGFHEVJ View in LinkedIn

STRUCTURE AS INFORMATION. "A number of models have viewed the microtubule lattice as something like a computational matrix in which the states of individual tubules represented fundamental units of information (e.g., like binary 'bits' in a computer)." https://lnkd.in/ea7fXXu View in LinkedIn

NANOSCALE PHASE CHANGE MEMORY MATERIALS. "Phase change memory materials store information through their reversible transitions between crystalline and amorphous states." Programmable materials are all about the storage of information in inert molecules and making them do orderly work. https://lnkd.in/ejHv_xs View in LinkedIn

STRUCTURING. "The second law of thermodynamics accounts for irreversible processes in the universe. As a statement about increasing disorder, it also plays a central role in creating order. Structuring is a way to increase the rate of dissipation of matter and energy. This is the reason why chemical reactions on earth have produced a profusion of structures." https://lnkd.in/e-VqAeg View in LinkedIn

STABLE STRUCTURES. "Chemical structures with particularly high stability, maintained by continual dissipation, are designated, somewhat arbitrarily, as living systems." https://lnkd.in/e-VqAeg View in LinkedIn

THE BIG QUESTION. "How do genetic systems gain information by evolutionary processes?" https://lnkd.in/eqY6kcy View in LinkedIn

BIOINFORMATION DEFINED. "50 years ago Claude Shannon defined information as a decrease in the uncertainty of a receiver. For molecular systems, uncertainty is closely related to entropy and hence has clear connections to the Second Law of Thermodynamics." https://lnkd.in/eqY6kcy View in LinkedIn

SIMULATED EVOLUTION. "The simulation begins with zero information and, as in naturally occurring genetic systems, the information measured in the fully evolved binding sites is close to that needed to locate the sites in the genome. The transition is rapid, demonstrating that information gain can occur by punctuated equilibrium." https://lnkd.in/eqY6kcy View in LinkedIn

HUMAN SPLICE ACCEPTOR SITES. Information in the nucleotide binding sites: "human splice acceptor sites contain ~9.4 bits of information on average." https://lnkd.in/e8egMih View in LinkedIn

"BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION, measured in the strict Shannon sense, can rapidly appear in genetic control systems subjected to replication, mutation and selection." https://lnkd.in/eqY6kcy View in LinkedIn