The imitation game - A computational chemical approach to recognizing life

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1203-1206

  Cronin, Leroy ^a   Krasnogor, Natalio ^b   Davis, Benjamin G ^c   Alexander, Cameron ^b   Robertson, Neil ^d   Steinke, Joachim H G ^e   Schroeder, Sven L M ^f   Khlobystov, Andrei N ^b   Cooper, Geoff ^a   Gardner, Paul M ^c   Siepmann, Peter ^b   Whitaker, Benjamin J ^g   Marsh, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIGITAL COMPUTER; GEDANKENEXPERIMENT; GENE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TURING TEST;

CELL COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIFE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33749868936     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1006-1203     Document Type: Note

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