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Index

Mellitin, 227

Memory, 25, 106, 122

Memory function, 322, 329

Mendel’s laws, 181

Metabolic code, 81, 335

Metabolic control analysis, 334

Metabolism, 331

Metabolite, 331

Methylation, 184, 204, 211

Metron, 57

Michal, G., 335

Microarray, 272, 327, 330

MicroRNA, 205

Mismatch, 258, 323

Missing information, 57

Mitosis, 182

Modularity, 25

Module, 320

Motif, 261

MRNA, 15

MRNA processing, 206

MudPIT, 280

Multilevel selection, 32

Multinomial coefficient, 96

Multiplication rule, 94

Multiplicative processes, 110

Mutation, 200

Mutual algorithmic complexity, 132

Mutual algorithmic information, 133

N

Natural selection, 12, 30

Negative binomial distribution, 106

Network complexity, 149

Network diameter, 146

Neurophysiology, 5

Nonspecific interaction, 323

Nucleic acid extraction, 251

Nucleotide frequencies, 264

O

Observation, 56

Operon, 184, 189, 203, 316

Optical microscopy, 176

Organism, 11

Origin of proteins, 44

OWLS, 328

P

Parameter, 19

Paraoxonase, 347

Partitioning, 96

Patchiness, 190

Pattern discovery, 159

Pattern recognition, 333

Percolation, 144

Permutation, 94

Persistence length, 224

Phage display, 282

Pharmacogenomics, 366

Phase portrait, 152

Phosphorylation, 76, 284

Physical information, 57

Physical structure, 143

Pleiotropy, 355

Poisson approximation, 106

Poisson distribution, 103, 106

Polymerase chain reaction, 251

Polyploidy, 181

Post-translational modifications, 271

Power spectrum, 129

Pragmatics, 71

Primary structure, 234

Principal component analysis, 163, 276, 333

Principle of Insufficient Reason, 99, 112

Probabilistic Boolean network, 315

Production complexity, 132

Prokaryote, 175

Promoter, 187

Promoter sites, 205

Proofreading, 196

Proposition, 111

Protease, 277

Proteasome, 181, 217

Protein, 15

Protein chips, 330

Protein degradation, 180

Protein folding, 228

Protein interaction, 228

Protein structure, 233

Protein structure determination, 232

Punctuated equilibrium, 31

Purely random process, 125

Pyrosequencing, 252

Q

Quality of information, 63

Quartz crystal microbalance, 328

Quasi-species, 198

Quaternary structure, 234

Quinary structure, 234, 313