Index

403

R

Ramachandran plot, 228

Random graph, 147

Randomness, 59, 60, 94

Random variable, 107

Random walk, 323

Reaction-diffusion equation, 150

Recombination, 182, 198

Redundancy, 60, 89

Regularity, 5, 25, 60, 111, 122, 131, 132

Relative entropy, 60

Remembering, 54

Rényi, A., 147

Repair, 196

Repetition, 186, 187

Repetitive DNA, 186

Replication, 196

Reputation, 225

Response, 22

Restriction enzymes, 273

Retrotransposon, 190

Ribosome, 43, 206

Risk, 33

RNA folding, 226

RNA interference, 205

Runs, 108

S

Sample space, 99, 101

Sampling, 94, 97

Sanger, F., 251

Satellite, 186

Scale-free network, 147, 336

Scatter matrix, 108

Secondary structure, 234

Secretome, 173

Selection, 30, 77, 211

SELEX, 326

Self-organization, 31, 69

Semantic information, 67

Semantics, 389

Semiotics, 71, 76

Sequence alignment, 257

Sequence comparison, 257

Sequencing, 251

Serial analysis of gene expression, 276

Shannon coding, 83

Shannon index, 52

Shannon-Wiener index, 52

Short interspersed element, 186

Shotgun sequencing, 237, 252

Signal, 262

Signalling cascades, 285

Significs, 69

Simplicity, 131

Simpson’s index, 52

Single-nucleotide polymorphism, 190, 356

Small systems, 178

Small world, 147, 336

Specialization, 30

Species, 30, 31, 35, 43, 192, 200, 212, 213,

232, 250, 262, 266

Specificity, 322

Spontaneous assembly, 177

Standard deviation, 107

Stark degradation, 280

State structure, 143, 314

Statistical inference, 113

Stem cells, 209

Stirling’s formula, 95

Stochastic independence, 105

Strange attractor, 152

Structural complexity, 149

Structural genomics, 15

Support, 112

Surface plasmon resonance, 328

Survival, 13, 21, 121

Sustained activation, 324

Sustained interaction, 320

Symmetry, 29

Synergetics, 334

Syntax, 60

System, 139, 335

Systems biology, 5

Systems theory, 334

T

Taxonomy, 42

Telomere, 181, 187

Tertiary structure, 234

Thermodynamic depth, 132

Transcription, 202

Transcription factors, 205

Transcription regulation, 202

Transducer, 19, 76

Translation, 206

Tree, 148

Turing machine, 124

Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, 277,

281

U

Ubiquitin, 181

Ultrastructure, 217, 219