NDLI: Fleeting objects, enduring information

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Battail, G.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Information can only be defined as an equivalence class of sequences with respect to alphabet changes and encodings, hence it is an abstract entity. However, a sequence is necessarily borne by a physical support. Information thus appears as a bridge between the abstract and the concrete. In the living world, the information borne by genomes acts on matter by instructing the assembly of objects. Physical perturbations degrade the supports, hence the sequences they bear, but the information they represent can be almost indefinitely conserved provided they are endowed with error-correcting codes as powerful as to enable their regeneration, and regenerated frequently enough. Codes made of nested components which successively originated over the ages account for the conservation of the oldest parts of the genomes. The component codes are `soft', meaning that they result from any kind of non-mathematical constraint, e.g., physical-chemical or linguistic. The genomic information instructs the assembly of living structures by the agency of interwoven semantic feedback loops which lock themselves because the synthetized enzymes catalyse their own assembly.
Starting Page	137
Ending Page	141
File Size	201923
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479959853
ISSN	21654719
DOI	10.1109/ISTC.2014.6955101
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-08-18
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Proteins Feedback loop Semantics Genomics Error correction codes Bioinformatics Assembly
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

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