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Viruses in all Dimensions

How an Information Code Controls Viruses, Software and Microorganisms

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
VIII, 156 Seiten
2023 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-38825-6 (ISBN)

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Viruses in all Dimensions - Rafael Ball
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Microorganisms, viruses, and computer programs encode all the information necessary to reproduce and spread themselves. Yet these mechanisms are amazingly similar in the animate world, in the world of viruses, and even in the world of technical systems. The book shows how great the parallels are between these various animate and inanimate replicating systems and what they are based on.

The excursion also leads into the fascinating world of genetics, to the question of what defines life and into the programming of software that multiplies itself independently. Finally, the question is derived whether and to what extent such self-replicating technical systems can become as dangerous as infectious viruses in triggering pandemics, such as the Corona pandemic in 2020.

The author Rafael Ball holds a PhD in biology, is a historian of science and a librarian. He is director of the ETH-Bibliothek Zurich and lecturer in library science and management at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden. For many years he has been concerned with questions of information theory, science communication and the effects of digitisation on science and society in the present and the future. He is the author of numerous relevant publications, editor of information science journals and speaker at meetings and conferences.

Viruses, microorganisms and molecular genetics.- What is life?.-Basic concepts of molecular genetics.- Viruses and early genetics.- Algorithms and self-replicating computer programs.- What is information?.- Coding of information in technology and biology.- Coevolution of life and technology.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo VIII, 156 p. 16 illus., 14 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Wiesbaden
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Gewicht 184 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Medizin / Pharmazie Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie Orthopädie
Schlagworte Analogy of viruses and computer viruses • Computer viruses • Covid 19 Virus • DNA • epigenetics • Genetics • Information • information coding • origin of life • RNA • Self-Replicating Systems • Viruses
ISBN-10 3-658-38825-0 / 3658388250
ISBN-13 978-3-658-38825-6 / 9783658388256
Zustand Neuware
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