This volume contains 13 selected lectures from the International Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Biology subtitled 'Computational Morphogenesis, Hierarchical Complexity and Digital Evolution' held at the University of Aizu (Japan). This interdisciplinary workshop brought together researchers working on aspects of evolutionary, mathematical, and computational biology that are of particular interest for computer scientists, biologists, and mathematicians. Discussion topics include mathematical approaches for addressing evolutionary problems (such as replication, multicellularity, individuality, and morphogenesis), the theoretical tools for rigorously developing these questions, software systems and applications.Of special concern were self-replication, the evolution of individuality, symbiogenesis, evolutionary developmental biology, computational morphogenesis, interaction dynamics, the evolution and maintenance of sex, and properties of the digital genetic code. Lectures are organized roughly according to increase of biological scale in the order of themes presented at the workshop.
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Chemes, genes, memes: A revised classification of replicators by E. Szathmary Cellular space models of self-replicating systems by J. D. Lohn On the evolution of eukaryotes: Computational models of symbiogenesis and multicellularity by L. Bull Cooperation and conflict in the evolution of individuality. III: Transitions in the unit of fitness by R. E. Michod and D. Roze On the manner in which biological complexity may grow by C. L. Nehaniv and J. L. Rhodes A simple evolvable development system in Euclidean space by T. Unemi Computer simulation and analysis of a growing mammalian cell colony by V. V. Savchenko, A. G. Basnakian, and A. A. Pasko Why do asexual and self-fertilising populations tend to occur in marginal environments? by J. R. Peck, J. M. Yearsley, and D. Waxman The social life of automata by K. Sigmund The linear geometry of genetic operators with applications to the analysis of genetic drift and genetic algorithms using tournament selection by L. M. Schmitt and C. L. Nehaniv Evolution of diseases by S. Okuyama Maximal circular codes and applications to theoretical biology by G. Pirillo Sorting permutations and its application in genome analysis by Q.-P. Gu, S. Peng, and Q.-M. Chen.
