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View SchemaComputational Theory of Biological Function I
| Authors | Ron Maimon |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | q-bio/0503028 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0503028 |
Abstract
This series presents an approach to mathematical biology which makes precise the function of biological molecules. Because biological systems compute, the theory is a general purpose computer language. I build a language for efficiently representing the function of protein-like molecules in a cell. The first paper only presents the kinematic part of the formalism, but this is already useful for representing large-scale protein networks. The full formalism allows us to investigate the properties of protein interaction models, ultimately yielding an estimate of the random-access memory of the proteins, a measure of their capacity for computation.
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