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A New Biology: A Modern Perspective on the Challenge of Closing the Gap between the Islands of Knowledge

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This paper discusses the rebirth of the old quest for the principles of biology along the discourse line of machine-organism disanalogy and within the context of biocomputation from a modern perspective. It reviews some new attempts to revise the existing body of research and enhance it with new developments in some promising fields of mathematics and computation. The major challenge is that the latter are expected to also answer the need for a new framework, a new language and a new methodology capable of closing the existing gap between the different levels of complex system organization.

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  1. JSRC, Wilhelmstrasse 91, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    Plamen L. Simeonov

  2. Faculté des Sciences, Mathématiques, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 33 rue Saint-Leu, F-80039, Amiens, France

    Andrée C. Ehresmann

  3. Institute of Computing Science and Mathematics, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK

    Leslie S. Smith

  4. Universidad Politécnica Madrid, ETSII-Dpto. Atomatica, José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, Madrid, 28006, Spain

    Jaime Gomez Ramirez

  5. The Department of Information Technology, University of Economics, Prague, W.Churchill sqr. 4, 130 67, Prague 3, Czech Republic

    Vaclav Repa

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Simeonov, P.L., Ehresmann, A.C., Smith, L.S., Gomez Ramirez, J., Repa, V. (2011). A New Biology: A Modern Perspective on the Challenge of Closing the Gap between the Islands of Knowledge. In: Cezon, M., Wolfsthal, Y. (eds) Towards a Service-Based Internet. ServiceWave 2010 Workshops. ServiceWave 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22760-8_21

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