The Organic Builder: A public experiment in artificial chemistries and self-replication

Artificial Life

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-28

  Hutton, Tim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial chemistry; Evolvability; Origin of life; Self replication; User interface

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ARTIFICIAL CHEMISTRIES; EVOLVABILITY; JAVA APPLET; ORIGIN OF LIFE; REPLICATORS; SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; SELF-REPLICATIONS;

USER INTERFACES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67649083991     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.2009.15.1.15102     Document Type: Article

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