Physics of Life Reviews

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Physics of Life Reviews is an international journal appearing quarterly, that publishes review articles on physics of living systems, complex phenomena in biological systems, and related fields of artificial life, robotics, mathematical bio-semiotics, and artificial intelligent systems. This journal is a unifying force, going across the barriers between disciplines, addressing all living systems from molecules to populations and from genetics to mind and artificial systems modeling these phenomena. The journal invites reviews from actively working researchers, which are broad in scope, critical, accessible to our wide readership and addresses sometimes controversial accounts of recent progress and problems.

Physics of Life Reviews intends to keep the active researcher abreast of developments on a wide range of topics by publishing timely reviews, which are more than mere literature surveys but normally less than a full monograph. Although most of the reviews will be of a specialist nature, each review should contain enough introductory material to make the main points intelligible to a non-specialist and to inspire and facilitate interdisiplinary research. The reviews should address in a clear way the most important conceptual issues in a field, review existing theories and methods with their achievements and drawbacks or difficulties versus the issues, unsolved problems addressed by a new theory, method, or approach, and why a significant progress is achieved or expected. Future research directions, remaining unsolved problems, and experimental confirmations or controversies should also be addressed.

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Physicists, Chemists, Mathematicians, Biologists, Computer Scientists and Material Scientists with an interest in Biological systems.

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Astrophysics Data Systems, CSA Technology Research Database, EMBiology, Ei Compendex, INSPEC, MEDLINE®, Scopus

Editor-in-Chief: L. Perlovsky Harvard University, 33 Oxford St. Rm. 336, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, Editorial Board: J.F. Fontanari Inst. de Fisica, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05315 970 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, M. Frank-Kamenetskii Ctr. for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, 36 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA, T. Fukuda Dept. of Micro System Engin., Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Aichi, 464-8603 Nagoya, Japan, V.M. Kenkre Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science, University of New Mexico, 800 Yale Boulevard NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA, B.G. Konopelchenko Dipart. di Fisica, Università di Lecce, Via Arnesano, 73100 Lecce, Italy, A. Meystel Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA, L. Peliti Dipart. di Scienze Fisiche, Unitá INFM, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Complesso Monte S. Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy, E. Shakhnovich Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, T. Tan Chinese Academy of Science, Inst. of Automation, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, 95 Zhong Guan Cun East Road, 100190 Beijing, China, L.A. Zadeh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), Div. of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1776, USA, V. Zakharov Landau Institute of Theoretial Physics, Kosygina street 2, 117 960 Moscow, Russian Federation, E. di Mauro Dipto. di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy, Honorary Editor: I. Prigogine†

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