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Index

Conditional algorithmic information, 133

Conditional complexity, 133

Conditional information, 56, 383

Conditional probability, 103

Connectivity, 142

Consensus sequence, 262

Constraint, 31, 37, 53, 58–60, 76, 82, 96,

126, 131, 164, 173, 184, 189, 190, 208,

212, 225, 228, 229, 231–233, 262, 263,

265, 286, 321, 384

Context, 49, 66, 133

Contig, 252

Control point, 366

Coöperation, 32

Cooperative binding, 323

Correlated expression, 326

Correlation coefficient, 108

Correlation information, 62, 132

Covariance, 108

Crosslinking, 325

Crossover, 199

C-value paradox, 187

Cytoplasm, 173

D

Darwin, C., 30

Database reliability, 256

Decoding, 76

Dehydron, 135, 231, 232, 303, 320,321,323

Density information, 62

Depth, 132

Developing embryo, 66

Development, 201

Differential entropy, 54

Differentiation, 209

Diffusion, 128, 150

Digital organism, 5

Dimensional reduction, 323

Diploidy, 181

Direct affinity measurement, 328

Directive correlation, 23, 24

Disorder, 54

Distance metrics, 162

Diversity, 52, 236

DNA structure, 223

Donor-acceptor interaction, 321

Durability of information, 62

Dynamic chaos, 125, 152

Dynamic programming, 260

E

Ecosystem collapse, 243

Edge complexity, 149

Edman sequencing, 280

Effect, 68

Effective complexity, 132

Effective measure complexity, 62, 132

Electron acceptor, 220

Electron donor, 220

Electrophoresis, 280

Electrostatic interaction, 321

Elementary flux mode, 336

Entelechy, 208

Entropy, 53, 54

Entropy of a Markov process, 127

Entropy of the source, 55

Enzyme status, 348

Epidemics, 148

Epigenetics, 15, 66, 204, 208, 210, 211

Equivocation, 86, 87

Ergodicity, 85, 125

Error, 35, 64, 87, 89, 168, 196, 198, 207, 256,

268, 312, 329, 392

Error detection, 89

Error rate threshold, 35, 198

Eukaryote, 175

Eusociality, 33

Event, 99, 101

Evolution, 232

Evolution, models, 34

Exaptation, 31

Exon, 15, 44, 186

Exon shuffling, 186

Expectation, 107

Explicit meaning, 12, 66

Exponential growth, 141, 179

Expressed sequence tags, 253

Extinctions, 30

F

FASTA, 261

Feedback, 139

Fermi–Dirac statistics, 96

Fisher information, 55

Fisher, R.A., 55, 139

Fitness, 33

Focal condition, 22

Forensic medicine, 373

Förster resonance, 326

Frequency dictionary, 264

Frequentist concept, 99

Function, 72

Functional cloning, 357, 366

Functional genomics, 4, 15, 249

Fuzzy clustering, 275