Investigation of Statistical Characteristics of Biomolecules

ISBN-13: 9783639236743 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 124 str.

Hanan M. Al Shargi

Opis

Information theory tools revealed huge information deficiencies in biological sequences. Further probing of research findings emerging form Life Sciences and Epigenetics fields illuminate anomalies that deepens the enigma of how such information deficient sequences are capable of supporting the astonishingly complex biomolecules. In an unconventional approach, the author takes clues from the emerging Cloud Computing paradigm and elaborates on a constructive theory of the physical Universe which furnishes an algorithmic design for a trend in theoretical physics suggesting the involvement of information as a basic constituent of the physical Universe alongside matter and energy. This work puts forward a hypothesis that suggests the involvement of the surmised universal informational infrastructure in the functioning of complex biomolecules and discusses the effect of such an organization on biological control. Under this hypothesis the puzzling and unintelligible fact of the Universes non-locality manifests as a sensible and essential mechanism to achieve biological complexity. Experimental testing with most practical uses of this hypothetical machinery is discussed.

O autorze

Hanan M. Al-Shargi, PhD in Computer Science. Her research interests include data mining, web searching, information theory, and Epigenetics. A member of the ACM and APS, winner of numerous awards, including the KAUST Scholar Award for representing "a new age of visionary researchers, those who will have a major impact on the future of science".