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Wednesday 25 December 2013

Do Complex Replicating Molecular Machines Evolve Using Stored Quantum Information?

The first article in the informationist biosciences section of Informationist eMagazine is an analysis and review of lengthy paper presented by molecular and computational biologist A. V. Melkikh. Melkikh pursues the argument for partially directed evolution of replicators in protein synthesis using evolutionary game theory. He proposes that a lot of information is required to guide the process of selecting workable conformations of biomolecules in order to arrive at new replicators in new environmental niches, and that the most likely source of this a-priori information is the quantum structures of important biomolecules.

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