From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/2116 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter McBurney Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Category Theory in Biology Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:56:01 +0000 Message-ID: <3E3048D1.9FB9BBCE@csc.liv.ac.uk> References: <15918.28389.594290.761117@acws-0054.cs.bham.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241018422 2558 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:20:22 +0000 (UTC) To: CATEGORIES LIST Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Fri Jan 24 13:46:04 2003 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.10) id 18c7lZ-0003X1-00 for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:37:21 -0400 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 41 Original-Lines: 37 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:2116 Archived-At: Dusko -- > > BTW have you seen the book: > > Life Itself. A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and > Fabrication of Life > by Robert Rosen (Columbia University Press 1991) > > it was referenced in a biology paper, i found it in the biology library, > and it's full of categories. (yes, i kno, people often do that to sound > complicated, but this seems like honest work, perhaps even inspiring, > although it does not go very deep.) An earlier book of Rosen's applying category theory to biology (or rather, speaking more carefully, exploring how one might conceive of applying category theory to biological domains) was: "Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations" (Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK 1985) You may also be interested in this work by Andree Ehresmann and Jean-Paul Venbremeersch on a category-theoretic account of evolving systems, such as those found in biological domains: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/vbm-ehr/ Peter McBurney Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool