Architecture: The Crick Institute unpeeled

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Institute of Architecture of Application Systems

Using hierarchical structurings in process design is a frequent process modeling technique. Subprocesses are a common way to enable hierarchical structuring. Current approaches have a tight view on the syntactical restrictions of subprocesses and do not investigate different autonomy properties in detail. This paper fills this gap and broadens the current subprocess definition to a spectrum of ...

Francis Crick 1916–2004

In March 1953, 31 years after Howard Carter’s astonishing first glimpse into Tutankhamun's tomb, an even more golden treasure was found. Francis Crick and Jim Watson shared that moment of discovery as they looked, for the first time, into the heart of all living things. They saw the structure of DNA, and their vision became the big bang of modern biology. Francis’ life in research began inauspi...

Lagerkvist versus Crick

Present day data allow significant reconsideration of ideas on mechanisms underlying the degeneracy in the genetic code. Here a hypothesis is presented which links the degeneracy to possible conformational alterations in the codon-anticodon duplex. This enables explanation of Rumer symmetry in the table of the genetic code, coding of methionine and tryptophane without degeneracy and even predic...

Francisco Crick in Paradiso

Richard Dawkins has written another book on evolution. I haven't read it, but I noticed that one reviewer thought that the force of Dawkins' arguments was becoming diluted by a combination of militant atheism and over-flamboyant prose. To conservative scientists like me, the idea of selfish genes, while certainly snappy, leads to ignoring the biology surrounding the genes and, in the end, to a ...