Information Processing in Cells and Tissues

Signalling and Communication: An Introduction to Section 1.- Some Aspects of Gap Junction Dynamics in Embryonic Systems.- Real Time Processing of Nerve Signals for Controlling a Limb Prostheses.- Stimulus-Secretion Coupling in Pancreatic ?-Cells Explained by Chay’s Store-Operated Model.- Towards Computational Models of Chemotaxis in Escherichia coli.- Three Modes of Calcium-Induced Calcium Release (CICR) in Neurons.- ?-neuron, a One Dimensional Spiking Model that Reproduces in vitro and in vivo Spiking Characteristics of Cortical Neurons.- A Simulation of Growth Cone Filopodia Dynamics Based on Turing Morphogenesis Patterns.- Organ Function and Cell Behaviour: Simulating Disturbances in Ventricular Propagation.- Extracellular Signalling in an Oscillatory Yeast Culture.- Dopamine-mediated Dephosphorylation of N/P-Type Calcium Channels in Striatal Neurons: A Quantitative Model.- The World Wide Web Cytokine Database—New Techniques of Diagrammatic Information Management on the Web.- Involvement of Receptor-Kinase in the Biochemistry Upstream from cAMP Synthesis in Cells.- Amplification of Switching Characteristics of Biochemical-Reaction Networks Involving Ca2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II: Implication for LTP Induced by a Single Burst during the Theta Oscillation.- Influence of Calcium Binding to Proteins on Calcium Oscillations and ER Membrane Potential Oscillations. A Mathematical Model.- A Model of LHRH ‘Self-Priming’ at the Pituitary.- Computation and Information: An Introduction to Section 2.- Morphomechanical Feedback in Embryonic Development.- Information Processing in Computational Tissues.- Semiotics of Complex Systems: A Hierarchical Notation for the Mathematical Structure of a Single Cell.- Localisation and Nonlocality in Computation.- Miningthe Gene Expression Matrix: Inferring Gene Relationships from Large Scale Gene Expression Data.- Computational Models of Immunological Pathways.- Control Laws in the Mesoscopic Processes of Biocomputing.- A Computer System that Links Gene Expression to Spatial Organization of Caenorhabditis elegans.- Verbs, Glue and Categories in the Cellular Economy.- A Computational Architecture Based on Cellular Processing.- Distributivity, a General Information Theoretic Network Measure, or Why the Whole is More than the Sum of its Parts.- GeNet Database as a Tool for the Analysis of Regulatory Genetic Networks.- Cellular-Automata-like Simulations of Dynamic Neural Fields.- Towards a Metabolic Robot Control System.- Epilogue—Concluding Discussions.