Self-organization and entropy reduction in a living cell

BioSystems

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Davies, Paul C W ^a   Rieper, Elisabeth ^b   Tuszynski, Jack A ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entropy; Genetic code; Information theory; Shannon information; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA; ENTROPY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; NUMERICAL METHOD; PROTEIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CELL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA CONTENT; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENTROPY; GENETIC CODE; LIVING CELL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SELF ORGANIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84870910124     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: 18728324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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