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Cells are complex systems. For some people, they are like tiny chemical plants, or laboratories, or machines. For others they are more like computational devices or even computational systems. As data continue to be generated about them and their components and the systems that they make up, new perspectives and models are needed to deal with the complexity. Cells are more than bags of chemicals just as macromolecules are more than microscopic billiard balls or strings of beads. The challenges of an information processing view that complements the more commonly expressed chemical processing view needs to be taken into account.
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Paton, R. (2004). CytoComputational Systems — Perspectives and Tools of Thought. In: Paton, R., Bolouri, H., Holcombe, M., Parish, J.H., Tateson, R. (eds) Computation in Cells and Tissues. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06369-9_1
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