dc.contributor.author | Prokopenko, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Polani, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Chadwick, M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-20T07:52:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-06-20T07:52:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Prokopenko , M , Polani , D & Chadwick , M 2009 , ' Stigmergic gene transfer and emergence of universal coding ' , HFSP Journal , vol. 3 , no. 5 , pp. 317-327 . | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1955-2068 | |
dc.identifier.other | dspace: 2299/6004 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-3233-5847/work/86098127 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/6004 | |
dc.description | Original article can be found at : http://hfspj.aip.org/ Copyright HFSP Publishing | |
dc.description.abstract | We consider a simple information-theoretic model for evolutionary dynamics approaching the “coding threshold,” where the capacity to symbolically represent nucleic acid sequences emerges in response to a change in environmental conditions. We study the conditions when a coupling between the dynamics of a “proto-cell” and its proto-symbolic representation becomes beneficial in terms of preserving the proto-cell's information in a noisy environment. In particular, we are interested in understanding the behavior at the “error threshold” level, which, in our case, turns out to be a whole “error interval.” The useful coupling is accompanied by self-organization of internal processing, i.e., an increase in complexity within the evolving system. Second, we study whether and how different proto-cells can stigmergically share such information via a joint encoding, even if they have slightly different individual dynamics. Implications for the emergence of biological genetic code are discussed. | en |
dc.format.extent | 170589 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | HFSP Journal | |
dc.title | Stigmergic gene transfer and emergence of universal coding | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Computer Science | |
dc.contributor.institution | Science & Technology Research Institute | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
herts.preservation.rarelyaccessed | true | |