A New Biology: A Modern Perspective on the Challenge of Closing the Gap between the Islands of Knowledge

Citation

Simeonov PL, Ehresmann AC, Smith L, Gomez Ramirez J & Repa V (2011) A New Biology: A Modern Perspective on the Challenge of Closing the Gap between the Islands of Knowledge. In: Cezon M & Wolfsthal Y (eds.) Towards a Service-Based Internet. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 6569. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops, Ghent, Belgium, 13.12.2010-15.12.2010. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 188-195. http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-3-642-22759-2; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22760-8_21

Abstract
This paper discusses the rebirth of the old quest for the principles of biology along the discourse line of machine-organism disanalogy and within the context of biocomputation from a modern perspective. It reviews some new attempts to revise the existing body of research and enhance it with new developments in some promising fields of mathematics and computation. The major challenge is that the latter are expected to also answer the need for a new framework, a new language and a new methodology capable of closing the existing gap between the different levels of complex system organization.

Keywords
biological mathematics; biocomputation; interactions; events; Pattern formation (Biology) Mathematical models

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Professor Leslie Smith

Emeritus Professor, Computing Science