Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function

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Chialvo, Dante Renato
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2018
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Why life is complex and - most importantly - what is the origin of the over abundance of complexity in nature? This is a fundamental scientific question which, paraphrasing the late Per Bak, “is screaming to be answered but seldom is even being asked”. In this article, we review recent attempts across several scales to understand the origins of complex biological problems from the perspective of critical phenomena. To illustrate the approach, three cases are discussed, namely the large scale brain dynamics, the characterization of spontaneous fluctuations of proteins, and the physiological complexity of the cell mitochondria network.
Fil: Chialvo, Dante Renato. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Ciencia y Tecnología; Argentina
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title Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function
spellingShingle Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function
Chialvo, Dante Renato
complexity
criticality
biology
life
title_short Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function
title_full Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function
title_fullStr Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function
title_full_unstemmed Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function
title_sort Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Chialvo, Dante Renato
author Chialvo, Dante Renato
author_facet Chialvo, Dante Renato
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv complexity
criticality
biology
life
topic complexity
criticality
biology
life
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Why life is complex and - most importantly - what is the origin of the over abundance of complexity in nature? This is a fundamental scientific question which, paraphrasing the late Per Bak, “is screaming to be answered but seldom is even being asked”. In this article, we review recent attempts across several scales to understand the origins of complex biological problems from the perspective of critical phenomena. To illustrate the approach, three cases are discussed, namely the large scale brain dynamics, the characterization of spontaneous fluctuations of proteins, and the physiological complexity of the cell mitochondria network.
Fil: Chialvo, Dante Renato. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Ciencia y Tecnología; Argentina
description Why life is complex and - most importantly - what is the origin of the over abundance of complexity in nature? This is a fundamental scientific question which, paraphrasing the late Per Bak, “is screaming to be answered but seldom is even being asked”. In this article, we review recent attempts across several scales to understand the origins of complex biological problems from the perspective of critical phenomena. To illustrate the approach, three cases are discussed, namely the large scale brain dynamics, the characterization of spontaneous fluctuations of proteins, and the physiological complexity of the cell mitochondria network.
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Chialvo, Dante Renato; Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function; Polish Academy of Sciences. Institute of Physics; Acta Physica Polonica B; 49; 12; 12-2018; 1955-1979
0587-4254
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CONICET Digital
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