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Foreword
Introduction
About protocells
Why modelling protocells
Collective self-replication
Self-replication in a vesicle
Self-replication in a reproducing protocell
Generic properties of dynamical models of protocells
Introduction. -Generic properties of biological systems: data
Generic properties of biological systems: concepts
What shall we model
Dynamical models of protocells and synchronization
Simplified surface-reaction models of protocells
Synchronization in surface reaction models
Several linearly interacting replicators
Several interacting replicators with nonlinear interactions
Internal reaction models
Models of self-replication
Introduction
Autocatalytic sets
The properties of some replication models
Products and substrates
Reflexive autocatalytic food-generated (raf) sets
A stochastic model of growing and dividing protocells
Semipermeable protocells
The role of active membranes
The effects of passive membranes
Coupled dynamics of rafs and protocells
Maintaining novelties.-A comment on evolvable populations of protocells
Conclusions, open questions and perspectives
Introduction
The hypothesis of spontaneous fission and synchronization
The formation of self-sustaining autocatalytic cycles
The role of membranes
A virtual laboratory.
Introduction
About protocells
Why modelling protocells
Collective self-replication
Self-replication in a vesicle
Self-replication in a reproducing protocell
Generic properties of dynamical models of protocells
Introduction. -Generic properties of biological systems: data
Generic properties of biological systems: concepts
What shall we model
Dynamical models of protocells and synchronization
Simplified surface-reaction models of protocells
Synchronization in surface reaction models
Several linearly interacting replicators
Several interacting replicators with nonlinear interactions
Internal reaction models
Models of self-replication
Introduction
Autocatalytic sets
The properties of some replication models
Products and substrates
Reflexive autocatalytic food-generated (raf) sets
A stochastic model of growing and dividing protocells
Semipermeable protocells
The role of active membranes
The effects of passive membranes
Coupled dynamics of rafs and protocells
Maintaining novelties.-A comment on evolvable populations of protocells
Conclusions, open questions and perspectives
Introduction
The hypothesis of spontaneous fission and synchronization
The formation of self-sustaining autocatalytic cycles
The role of membranes
A virtual laboratory.