Stringmol Artificial Chemistry

About these pages

Welcome to the web pages for Stringmol, an automata chemistry for experiments in molecular evolution and artificial life. These pages were originally developed for "RUTSAC", a tutorial on Stringmol for ECAL 2011, Paris.

This web site contains:

• The stringmol web application
• A worksheet for the RUTSAC workshop
• Presentation from RUTSAC
• Stringmol technical specification version 0.2

About Stringmol

As in an RNA World, a molecule In the Stringmol Artificial Chemistry can be both genomic and enzymic, facilitating rich interactions between the genome and the phenotype. This website will equip attendees with the knowledge and experience necessary to set up and run experiments with Stringmol.

Source code

The stringmol web application hooks into functions in the original Stringmol program, which is written in C++. The source code is available on Github.

Publications

• Maximising the Adjacent Possible in Automata Chemistries (2016).
• Conservation of Matter Increases Evolutionary Activity (2015).
• Degeneracy enriches Artificial Chemistry binding systems (2011).
• Diversity from a monoculture: effects of mutation-on-copy in a string-based artificial chemistry (2011).

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