The Bhopalator: An Information/Energy Dual Model of the Living Cell (II)

Issue title: Membrane Computing (WMC-CdeA2001)

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ji, Sungchul

Affiliations: Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, N.J. 08855, U.S.A.

Abstract: A molecular model of the living cell known as the Bhopalator is described with the hope of aiding mathematicians and computer scientists to develop comprehensive algebraic models of the cell. The Bhopalator is energy/information dual in the sense that it can be described using two complementary languages – the energy/matter based language of physics and chemistry and the information/sign based language of linguistics and mathematics. The availability of mathematical models of the cell may eventually lead to developing computer models of the living cell, resulting in important applications not only in biology and medicine but also in computer science and computer industry. To stimulate discussions among mathematicians and computer scientists, the algebraic encoding of the essential characteristics of the Bhopalator may be referred to as the C system (C indicating the cell), in analogy to the well-known H and P systems.

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Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 49, no. 1-3, pp. 147-165, 2002