ArticleSystems and synthetic biology2009
Information of the chassis and information of the program in synthetic cells.
Article in Systems and synthetic biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Natural and Synthetic Metabolic Architectures.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026Article
- Science, method and critical thinking.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- From Molecular Recognition to the "Vehicles" of Evolutionary Complexity: An Informational Approach.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- A framework for parsing heritable information.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- Omnipresent Maxwell's demons orchestrate information management in living cells.Microbial biotechnology · 2019Article
- Evolutionary tinkering vs. rational engineering in the times of synthetic biology.Life sciences, society and policy · 2018Article
- Special issue editorial: synthetic biology, global health, and its global governance.Systems and synthetic biology · 2013Article
- Downward causation by information control in micro-organisms.Interface focus · 2012Article
- Paving the way for synthetic biology-based bioremediation in Europe.Microbial biotechnology · 2010Article
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Abstract
Synthetic biology aims at reconstructing life to put to the test the limits of our understanding. It is based on premises similar to those which permitted invention of computers, where a machine, which reproduces over time, runs a program, which replicates. The underlying heuristics explored here is that an authentic category of reality, information, must be coupled with the standard categories, matter, energy, space and time to account for what life is. The use of this still elusive category permits us to interact with reality via construction of self-consistent models producing predictions which can be instantiated into experiments. While the present theory of information has much to say about the program, with the creative properties of recursivity at its heart, we almost entirely lack a theory of the information supporting the machine. We suggest that the program of life codes for processes meant to trap information which comes from the context provided by the environment of the machine.
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