Measures of cellular change in systems theory

Abstract

Considers that as a general rule metrics serve to compare elements in the same set, such as the Euclidean metric by means of which we can calculate the distance between points ℜ ², ℜ³ etc. In practical applications such as in the biological sciences, it is necessary to compare cells which may have identical or different numbers of genes. Suggests that we may wish to compare different genes formed of finite sequences of four nucleotides. These are genes which may have the same or different numbers of bases. These and other questions are analysed from the viewpoint of general systems theory.

Citation

Lloret‐Climent, M. (1999), "Measures of cellular change in systems theory", Kybernetes, Vol. 28 No. 9, pp. 1016-1026. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929910300213