Open AccessCellular automata‐based artificial life system of horizontal gene transfer
Author(s) -
Liu Jixin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the journal of engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2051-3305
DOI - 10.1049/joe.2015.0113
Subject(s) - horizontal gene transfer , cellular automaton , mechanism (biology) , natural selection , gene , adaptation (eye) , biology , darwin (adl) , selection (genetic algorithm) , core (optical fiber) , evolutionary biology , genetics , computer science , computational biology , genome , artificial intelligence , physics , telecommunications , software engineering , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
Mutation and natural selection is the core of Darwin's idea about evolution. Many algorithms and models are based on this idea. However, in the evolution of prokaryotes, more and more researches have indicated that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) would be much more important and universal than the authors had imagined. Owing to this mechanism, the prokaryotes not only become adaptable in nearly any environment on Earth, but also form a global genetic bank and a super communication network with all the genes of the prokaryotic world. Under this background, they present a novel cellular automata model general gene transfer to simulate and study the vertical gene transfer and HGT in the prokaryotes. At the same time, they use Schrodinger's life theory to formulate some evaluation indices and to discuss the intelligence and cognition of prokaryotes which is derived from HGT.