eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson) (02/13/90)
I'm looking for papers on Autocatalytic Sets and other examples of forming complex strings of constituents from a set of very primitive strings. Essentially what I'm trying to do is take a string of elements, break it down into primitives, and then reassemble the primitives until a stable state is reached. I'm thinking of introducing noise into the replication process, and would like the strings to "evolve" somehow. If anyone knows of any papers, or has any suggestions, I would be glad to hear them. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Another Gruntpig production, in association with the Rat Lab Steamworks. I want to kill everyone here with a cute colorful Hydrogen Bomb!! -Zippy the Pinhead
wine@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Wine) (02/13/90)
I'd take a look at
Eigen, M. (Manfred), 1927-
The hypercycle, a principle of natural self-organization / M. Eigen, P.
Schuster. Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1979.scp@acl.lanl.gov (Stephen C. Pope) (02/24/90)
on 12 Feb 90 21:48:48 GMT, eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson) said: Eric> I'm looking for papers on Autocatalytic Sets and other examples of Eric> forming complex strings of constituents from a set of very primitive Eric> strings. Essentially what I'm trying to do is take a string of Eric> elements, break it down into primitives, and then reassemble the Eric> primitives until a stable state is reached. I'm thinking of Eric> introducing noise into the replication process, and would like the Eric> strings to "evolve" somehow. Eric> If anyone knows of any papers, or has any suggestions, I would be glad Eric> to hear them. Check out the work of Farmer, Packard, Bagley, and Kauffman on autocatalytic sets of proteins. Here's some references to get started with (I stole these out of the bibliography of C.G. Langton, Ed. "Artificial Life." Addison-Wesley, 1989): J.D. Farmer, S.A. Kauffman, and N.H. Packard. "Autocatalytic Replication of Polymers." Physica D, 22:50-67, 1986 S.A. Kauffman. "autocatalytic Sets of Proteins." J. Theor. Biol., 119:1-24, 1986 Also look for Kauffman's upcoming book "Origins of Order: Self- Organization and Selection in Evolution." Oxford University Press, Oxford stephen pope advanced computing lab, lanl scp@acl.lanl.gov