Biological Information

Session One - Information Theory and Biology: Introductory Comments (R J Marks II); Biological Information - What is it? (W Gitt, R Compton and J Fernandez); A General Theory of Information Cost Incurred by Successful Search (W A Dembski, W Ewert, and R J Marks II); Pragmatic Information (J W Oller Jr); Limits of Chaos and Progress in Evolutionary Dynamics (W F Basener); Tierra: The Character of adaptation (W Ewert, W A Dembski and R J Marks II); Multiple Overlapping Genetic Codes Profoundly Reduce the Probability of Beneficial Mutation (G Montanez, R J Marks II, J Fernandez and J C Sanford); Entropy, Evolution and Open Systems (G Sewell); Information and Thermodynamics in Living Systems (A C McIntosh); Session Two - Biological Information and Genetic Theory: Introductory Comments (J C Sanford); Not Junk After All: Non-Protein-Coding DNA Carries Extensive Biological Information (J Wells); Can Purifying Natural Selection Preserve Biological Information? (P Gibson, J R Baumgardner, W H Brewer and J C Sanford); Selection Threshold Severely Constrains Capture Of Beneficial Mutations (J C Sanford, J R Baumgardner and W H Brewer); Using Numerical Simulation to Test the "Mutation-Count" Hypothesis (W H Brewer, J R Baumgardner and J C Sanford); Can Synergistic Epistasis Halt Mutation Accumulation? Results from Numerical Simulation (J R Baumgardner, W H Brewer and J C Sanford); Computational Evolution Experiments Reveal a Net Loss of Genetic Information Despite Selection (C W Nelson, and J C Sanford); Information Loss: Potential for Accelerating Natural Genetic Attenuation of RNA Viruses (W H Brewer, F D Smith and J C Sanford); DNA.EXE: A Sequence Comparison Between the Human Genome and Computer Program Code (J Seaman); Biocybernetics and Biosemiosis (D Johnson); Session Three - Theoretical Molecular Biology: Introductory Comments (M J Behe); An Ode to the Code: Evidence for Fine-Tuning in the Standard Codon Table (J C Macosko, J C and A M Smelser); A New Model of Intracellular Communication Based on Coherent, High-Frequency Vibrations in Biomolecules (Dent L); Getting There First: An Evolutionary Rate Advantage for Adaptive Loss-of-Function Mutations (M J Behe); The Membrane Code: A Carrier of Essential Biological Information That is Not Specified by DNA and is Inherited Apart from It (J Wells); Explaining Metabolic Innovation: Neo-Darwinism Versus Design (D Axe and A Gauger); Session Four - Biological Information and Self-Organizational Complexity Theory: Introductory Comments (B Gordon); Evolution Beyond Entailing Law: The Roles of Embodied Information and Self Organization (S Kauffman); Hierarchical Information Theory and the Modeling of Biological Systems (J D H Smith); Towards a General Biology: Emergence of Life and Information from the Perspective of Complex Systems Dynamics (B H Weber).