1. A Renewed Editorial Board for OLEB

   Editorial Announcement 27 March 2015 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Introduction for the Proceedings of Origins 2014

   • Kenji Ikehara

   ORIGINS 2014 06 May 2015 Pages: 3 - 4

   

3. Water, Air, Earth and Cosmic Radiation

   • Marie-Paule Bassez

   ORIGINS 2014 17 March 2015 Pages: 5 - 13

4. The Juxtaposition of Ribose Hydroxyl Groups: The Root of Biological Catalysis and the RNA World?

   • Harold S. Bernhardt

   ORIGINS 2014 27 February 2015 Pages: 15 - 19

   

5. Novel applications of physical autocatalysis

   • Andrew J. Bissette
   • Stephen P. Fletcher

   ORIGINS 2014 27 February 2015 Pages: 21 - 30

   

6. In Situ Imidazole Activation of Ribonucleotides for Abiotic RNA Oligomerization Reactions

   • Bradley T. Burcar
   • Mohsin Jawed
   • Linda B. McGown

   ORIGINS 2014 27 February 2015 Pages: 31 - 40

   

7. The Dynamical Structure of HR 8799’s Inner Debris Disk

   • B. Contro
   • Robert A. Wittenmyer
   • Jonathan P. Marshall

   ORIGINS 2014 12 April 2015 Pages: 41 - 49

   

8. Evidence of Liquid Crystal–Assisted Abiotic Ligation of Nucleic Acids

   • Tommaso P. Fraccia
   • Giuliano Zanchetta
   • Tommaso Bellini

   ORIGINS 2014 15 May 2015 Pages: 51 - 68

   

9. The Self-Referential Genetic Code is Biologic and Includes the Error Minimization Property

   • Romeu Cardoso Guimarães

   ORIGINS 2014 14 March 2015 Pages: 69 - 75

   

10. Symmetrical and Thermodynamic Properties of Phenotypic Graphs of Amino Acids Encoded by the Primeval RNY Code

    • Marco V. José
    • Gabriel S. Zamudio
    • Sávio Torres de Farías

    ORIGINS 2014 22 March 2015 Pages: 77 - 83

    

11. S-Isovaline Contained in Meteorites, Induces Enantiomeric Excess in D,L-glutamic Acid During Recrystallization

    • Shosuke Kojo

    ORIGINS 2014 11 March 2015 Pages: 85 - 91

12. Hydrothermal Systems of Kamchatka are Models of the Prebiotic Environment

    • V. N. Kompanichenko
    • V. A. Poturay
    • K. V. Shlufman

    ORIGINS 2014 22 March 2015 Pages: 93 - 103

    

13. Template Directed Replication Supports the Maintenance of the Metabolically Coupled Replicator System

    • Balázs Könnyű
    • Tamás Czárán

    Origins 2014 11 March 2015 Pages: 105 - 112

    

14. Organic Compounds in Circumstellar and Interstellar Environments

    • Sun Kwok

    ORIGINS 2014 28 February 2015 Pages: 113 - 121

    

15. Prebiotic Alternatives to Proteins: Structure and Function of Hyperbranched Polyesters

    • Irena Mamajanov
    • Michael P. Callahan
    • George D. Cody

    ORIGINS 2014 20 May 2015 Pages: 123 - 137

    

16. Periodic Vesicle Formation in Tectonic Fault Zones—an Ideal Scenario for Molecular Evolution

    • Christian Mayer
    • Ulrich Schreiber
    • María J. Dávila

    ORIGINS 2014 Open access 27 February 2015 Pages: 139 - 148

    

17. Anisotropy-Guided Enantiomeric Enhancement in AlanineUsing Far-UV Circularly Polarized Light

    • Cornelia Meinert
    • Patrick Cassam-Chenaï
    • Uwe J. Meierhenrich

    ORIGINS 2014 14 March 2015 Pages: 149 - 161

    

18. Paradoxes of Early Stages of Evolution of Life and Biological Complexity

    • Alexey V. Melkikh

    ORIGINS 2014 11 March 2015 Pages: 163 - 171

    

19. Aldolase as a Chirality Intersection of L-Amino Acids and D-Sugars

    • Toratane Munegumi

    ORIGINS 2014 26 February 2015 Pages: 173 - 182

    

20. Predicting Three-Dimensional Conformations of Peptides Constructed of Only Glycine, Alanine, Aspartic Acid, and Valine

    • Akifumi Oda
    • Shuichi Fukuyoshi

    ORIGINS 2014 21 March 2015 Pages: 183 - 193

    

21. Possibility of Production of Amino Acids by Impact Reaction Using a Light-Gas Gun as a Simulation of Asteroid Impacts

    • Kazuki Okochi
    • Tetsu Mieno
    • Kosuke Kurosawa

    ORIGINS 2014 22 March 2015 Pages: 195 - 205

    

22. Phosphorus: a Case for Mineral-Organic Reactions in Prebiotic Chemistry

    • Matthew Pasek
    • Barry Herschy
    • Terence P. Kee

    ORIGINS 2014 14 March 2015 Pages: 207 - 218

    

23. On the Biogenic Origins of Homochirality

    • Victor Sojo

    ORIGINS 2014 14 March 2015 Pages: 219 - 224

    

24. Silica Aerogel for Capturing Intact Interplanetary Dust Particles for the Tanpopo Experiment

    • Makoto Tabata
    • Hajime Yano
    • Akihiko Yamagishi

    ORIGINS 2014 21 March 2015 Pages: 225 - 229

    

25. Precipitation Climatology on Titan-like Exomoons

    • Tetsuya Tokano

    OriginalPaper 22 March 2015 Pages: 231 - 239

    

26. M2 Proton Channel: Toward a Model of a Primitive Proton Pump

    • Chenyu Wei
    • Andrew Pohorille

    ORIGINS 2014 17 March 2015 Pages: 241 - 248

    

27. Emergence of Coding and its Specificity as a Physico-Informatic Problem

    • Peter R. Wills
    • Kay Nieselt
    • John S. McCaskill

    ORIGINS 2014 28 March 2015 Pages: 249 - 255

    

28. A Hypothesis About the Origin of Biology

    • Neville J. Woolf

    ORIGINS 2014 Open access 27 March 2015 Pages: 257 - 274

29. Prebiotic Chemical Evolution in the Astrophysical Context

    • L. M. Ziurys
    • G. R. Adande
    • N. J. Woolf

    ORIGINS 2014 18 April 2015 Pages: 275 - 288