Lipidia: An Artificial Chemistry of Self-Replicating Assemblies of Lipid-like Molecules

Barak Naveh, Moshe Sipper, Doron Lancet, Barak Shenhav

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Abstract

Lipidia is a new simulation system that is related to the “Lipid World” scenario for the origin of life. Lipidia allows for conducting experiments with a population of assemblies containing lipid-like molecules on a two dimensional grid. The dynamics of the assemblies is modelled using the Graded Autocatalysis Replication Domain (GARD) model. New experiments using a finite environment model with GARD were conducted with Lipidia. The experiments show that more self-replicating assembly species appear when using a model of finite environment than when using a model of infinite environment. In many species the number of individuals increases as well.
Original languageEnglish GB
Title of host publicationArtificial Life IX
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Artificial Life
EditorsJ. Pollack, M. Bedau, P. Husbands, T. Ikegami, R. A. Watson
Pages466-471
Volume9
StatePublished - 2004

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