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01 Nov 2000


Evolution of the molecular biological interpreter

Wills, P. R.
Abstract
     A macromolecular system may be said to be self-constructing if the relationship between structural components and the functional operations they perform to synthesise one another is reflexive. Reflexivity is a property of the catalytic structure-function relationship, that is, the embedding of catalytic functions in the space of polymeric structures. An operational algorithm for determining functions from structural information, such as the genetic code, is an interpreter. Molecular biological interpreters are continuously inherited products of historical processes of self-organisation. The evolution of interpreters is the hallmark of increasing functional complexity in self-constructing molecular biological systems.


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    Wills, P. R. (2001), Evolution of the molecular biological interpreter, Complexity International, Volume 08, Paper ID: wills01, URL: http://www.complexity.org.au/ci/vol08/wills01/
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