ReviewAstrobiology2018
Exoplanet Biosignatures: Future Directions.
Review in Astrobiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
- Proto-Biosignatures and Planetary Geochemical Metabolism: A Thermodynamic Screening Model of Prebiotic Geochemical Organization.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Origins of life: the possible and the actual.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
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- Fundamental constraints to the logic of living systems.Interface focus · 2024Review
- A robust, agnostic molecular biosignature based on machine learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Searching for Life, Mindful of Lyfe's Possibilities.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Scaling laws in enzyme function reveal a new kind of biochemical universality.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Schrödinger and the Possible Existence of Different Types of Life.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Informational architecture across non-living and living collectives.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2021Review
- The Multiple Paths to Multiple Life.Journal of molecular evolution · 2021Review
- The Grayness of the Origin of Life.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry.Nature communications · 2021Article
- The "Water Problem"(Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Evaluating Biosignatures for Life Detection.Astrobiology · 2020Article
- Quantifying the information impact of future searches for exoplanetary biosignatures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Extremophilic models for astrobiology: haloarchaeal survival strategies and pigments for remote sensing.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2020Review
- Deciphering Biosignatures in Planetary Contexts.Astrobiology · 2019Article
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- Universal scaling across biochemical networks on Earth.Science advances · 2019Article
- Evaluating Biogenicity on the Geological Record With Synchrotron-Based Techniques.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Review
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Abstract
We introduce a Bayesian method for guiding future directions for detection of life on exoplanets. We describe empirical and theoretical work necessary to place constraints on the relevant likelihoods, including those emerging from better understanding stellar environment, planetary climate and geophysics, geochemical cycling, the universalities of physics and chemistry, the contingencies of evolutionary history, the properties of life as an emergent complex system, and the mechanisms driving the emergence of life. We provide examples for how the Bayesian formalism could guide future search strategies, including determining observations to prioritize or deciding between targeted searches or larger lower resolution surveys to generate ensemble statistics and address how a Bayesian methodology could constrain the prior probability of life with or without a positive detection. Key Words: Exoplanets-Biosignatures-Life detection-Bayesian analysis. Astrobiology 18, 779-824.
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