Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
Overview: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter / I: |
The Early History of Protocells: The Search for the Recipe of Life / Martin M. Hanczyc1: |
Experimental Approaches to Fabricating Artificial Cellular Life / David Deamer2: |
Semisynthetic Minimal Cells: New Advancements and Perspectives / Pasquale Stano ; Giovanni Murtas ; Pier Luigi Luisi3: |
A Roadmap to Protocells / Steen Rasmussen ; Mark A. Bedau ; John S. McCaskill ; Norman H. Packard4: |
Integration / III: |
Steps Toward a Synthetic Protocell / Irene A. Chen ; Peter Sazani ; Jack W. Szostak5: |
Assembly of a Minimal Protocell / James Bailey ; James Boncella ; Liaohai Chen ; Gavin Collis ; Stirling Colgate ; Michael DeClue ; Harold Fellermann ; Goran Goranović ; Yi Jiang ; Chad Knutson ; Pierre-Alain Monnard ; Fouzi Mouffouk ; Peter E. Nielsen ; Anjana Sen ; Andy Shreve ; Arvydas Tamulis ; Bryan Travis ; Pawel Weronski ; William H. Woodruff ; Jinsuo Zhang ; Xin Zhou ; Hans Ziock6: |
Population Analysis of Liposomes with Protein Synthesis and a Cascading Genetic Network / Takeshi Sunami ; Kanetomo Sato ; Keitaro Ishikawa ; Tetsuya Yomo7: |
Constructive Approach to Protocells: Theory and Experiments / Kunihiko Kaneko8: |
Origin of Life and Lattice Artificial Chemistry / Naoaki Ono ; Duraid Madina ; Takashi Ikegami9: |
Models of Protocell Replication / Ricard V. Sole ; Javier Macia ; Andreea Munteanu ; Josep Sardanyes ; Sergi Valverde10: |
Compositional Lipid Protocells: Reproduction without Polynucleotides / Doron Lancet ; Barak Shenhav11: |
Evolutionary Microfluidic Complementation Toward Artificial Cells / 12: |
Components |
Self-Replication and Autocatalysis / Volker Patzke ; Gunter von Kiedrowski13: |
Replicator Dynamics in Protocells / Peter F. Stadler ; Barbel M. R. Stadler14: |
Peptide Nucleic Acids as Prebiotic and Abiotic Genetic Material / 15: |
The Core of a Minimal Gene Set: Insights from Natural Reduced Genomes / Toni Gabaldon ; Rosario Gil ; Juli Pereto ; Amparo Latorre ; Andres Moya16: |
Parasitism and Protocells: Tragedy of the Molecular Commons / Jeffrey J. Tabor ; Matthew Levy ; Zachary Booth Simpson ; Andrew D. Ellington17: |
Forming the Essential Template for Life: The Physics of Lipid Self-Assembly / Ole G. Mouritsen ; Ask F. Jakobsen18: |
Numerical Methods for Protocell Simulations / 19: |
Core Metabolism as a Self-Organized System / 20: |
Energetics, Energy Flow, and Scaling in Life / 21: |
Broader Context / IV: |
Ganti's Chemoton Model and Life Criteria / James Griesemer ; Eors Szathmary22: |
Viral Individuality and Limitations of the Life Concept / David C. Krakauer ; Paolo Zanotto23: |
Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics and the Origin of Life: The Inorganic-Physical Chemist Point of View / Jerzy Maselko ; Maciej Maselko24: |
Early Ancestors of Existing Cells / Andrew Pohorille25: |
Prebiotic Chemistry, the Primordial Replicator, and Modern Protocells / Henderson James Cleaves II26: |
Cell-like Entities: Scientific Challenges and Future Applications / John M. Frazier ; Nancy Kelley-Loughnane ; Sandra Trott ; Oleg Paliy ; Mauricio Rodriguez Rodriguez ; Leamon Viveros ; Melanie Tomczak27: |
Social and Ethical Issues Concerning Protocells / Emily C. Parke28: |
Glossary |
About the Authors |
Index |
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction |
Overview: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter / I: |
The Early History of Protocells: The Search for the Recipe of Life / Martin M. Hanczyc1: |
Experimental Approaches to Fabricating Artificial Cellular Life / David Deamer2: |