Information of the chassis and information of the program in synthetic cells

Systems and Synthetic Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 125-134

  Danchin, Antoine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Algorithmic complexity; Context; Field; Logical depth; Physical entropy; Self organisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350366114     PISSN: 18725325     EISSN: 18725333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11693-009-9036-5     Document Type: Review

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