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The comment mostly concerns mis-representation of my position on Quantum Biology, by stating that I am 'reducing cell's behavior to quantum particles inside the cell'. I contrast my position with that of McFadden-Al-Khalili, as well as with…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-17 Vasily Ogryzko

In this letter we present an analytic evidence of the non-integrability of the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation, a well-known discrete evolution equation which has been obtained in various contexts of physics and biology. We use a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Decio Levi , Matteo Petrera , Christian Scimiterna

The Schrodinger equation is one of the most important equations in physics and chemistry and can be solved in the simplest cases by computer numerical methods. Since the beginning of the 70s of the last century the computer began to be used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Rafael Lahoz-Beltra

The rapidly increasing interest in the quantum properties of living matter stimulates a discussion of the fundamental properties of life as well as quantum mechanics. In this discussion often concepts are used that originate in philosophy…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Alfred Driessen

Life is fundamentally a scientific enigma. The interplay between chaos, entropy dynamics, and Prigogine's dissipative systems offers profound insights into the emergence, stabilization, and eventual collapse of far-from-equilibrium systems.…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-20 Salvatore Chirumbolo , Antonio Vella

While fields like Artificial Life have made huge strides in quantifying the mechanisms that distinguish living systems from non-living ones, particular mechanisms remain difficult to reproduce in silico. Known as open-endedness, we've been…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Alyssa M Adams , Eliott Jacopin , Praful Gagrani , Olaf Witkowski

There is an intrinsic relationship between the molecular evolution in primordial period and the properties of genomes and proteomes of contemporary species. The genomic data may help us understand the driving force of evolution of life at…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-25 Dirson Jian Li , Shengli Zhang

Life occurs in concentrated `Ringer Solutions' derived from seawater that Lesser Blum studied for most of his life. As we worked together, Lesser and I realized that the questions asked of those solutions were quite different in biology…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-24 Bob Eisenberg

Epigenetic Tracking is a mathematical model of biological cells, originally conceived to study embryonic development. Computer simulations proved the capacity of the model to generate complex 3-dimensional cellular structures, and the…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-07 Alessandro Fontana

This is my attempt to answer Schr\"odinger's question: "What is Life?". In living cell the local combination of atoms is reproduced with incredible accuracy. In the case of protein biosynthesis the notion of the physical aspect of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 Denis A. Semenov

With the use of the general variational principle of self-organization of systems with varying constraints, namely the principle of dynamical harmonization of systems presented in the first work of the cycle, we advance an approach to the…

General Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 S. Adamenko , V. Bolotov , V. Novikov

Many mechanisms, functions and structures of life have been unraveled. However, the fundamental driving force that propelled chemical evolution and led to life has remained obscure. The 2nd law of thermodynamics, written as an equation of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-10-15 Arto Annila , Erkki Annila

The evolution problem for a quantum particle confined in a 1D box and interacting with one fixed point through a time dependent point interaction is considered. Under suitable assumptions of regularity for the time profile of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Andrea Mantile

"Epigenetic Tracking" is a model of systems of biological cells, able to generate arbitrary 2 or 3-dimensional cellular shapes of any kind and complexity (in terms of number of cells, number of colours, etc.) starting from a single cell. If…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-11-18 Alessandro Fontana

An introduction to some basic ideas of the author's "quantum cybernetics" is given, which depicts waves and "particles" as mutually dependent system components, thus defining "organizationally closed systems" characterized by a fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard Groessing

With the number of fully-sequenced genomes now well over a hundred it has become possible to start investigating if there are any quantitative regularities in the genetic make-up of genomes. In (physics/0307001), I originally showed that…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Erik van Nimwegen

The concept of evolutionary development of structures constituted a \emph{real} revolution in biology: it was possible to understand how the very complex structures of life can arise in an out-of-equilibrium system. The investigation of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-08-27 Franco Bagnoli

In the paper we look into the epistemology of quantum theory. The starting point is the previously established mathematical ambiguity. The perspective of our study is the way that Schroedinger described Einstein s idea of physics…

General Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Han Geurdes

Why life persists at the edge of chaos is a question at the very heart of evolution. Here we show that molecules taking part in biochemical processes from small molecules to proteins are critical quantum mechanically. Electronic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-07-21 Gabor Vattay , Dennis Salahub , Istvan Csabai , Ali Nassimi , Stuart A. Kaufmann

Gene regulatory network of lambda phage is one the best studied model systems in molecular biology. More 50 years of experimental study has provided a tremendous amount of data at all levels: physics, chemistry, DNA, protein, and function.…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 X. -M. Zhu , L. Yin , L. Hood , P. Ao