Evolutionary Bioinformatics: Making Meaning of Microbes, Molecules, Maps

Microbes, molecules, maladies and man.

Evolution, Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online

E volutionary Bioinformatics Online enjoyed a busy and productive fi rst year in 2005, capped off by being accepted by the Literature Selection and Technical Review Committee at the National Library of Medicine in the US, for inclusion in PubMed Central. This means that EBO will be indexed online in this internationally preeminent archive. A brief history. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online was...

Collective decision-making in microbes

Microbes are intensely social organisms that routinely cooperate and coordinate their activities to express elaborate population level phenotypes. Such coordination requires a process of collective decision-making, in which individuals detect and collate information not only from their physical environment, but also from their social environment, in order to arrive at an appropriately calibrate...

Making meaning happen

What is it for a sound or gesture to have a meaning, and how does it come to have one? In this paper, a range of simulations are used to extend the tradition of theories of meaning as use. The authors work throughout with large spatialized arrays of sessile individuals in an environment of wandering food sources and predators. Individuals gain points by feeding and lose points when they are hit...

Meaning Making in VMT

Meaning making is central to the interactions that take place in CSCL settings. The collaborative construction of shared meaning is a complex process that has not previously been analyzed in detail despite the fact that it is often acknowledged as being the distinguishing element in CSCL. Here, a three-minute excerpt from a discussion among three students is considered in some detail. The stude...