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When we simulate life, there are always more things to simulate than what have been coded. Life is complex and seems to have endless possibilities. Using artificial chemistry as a starting point to simulate life is a promising way to limit the possibilities because chemical reactions are always the same under the same physical conditions. We have built an 3D artificial chemistry system simulating molecules and the reactions among them. Our goal is to simulate a cell or a group of cells in the future using mainly molecules and chemical reactions. In this paper, we show that the system can simulate the fundamental aspects of reproduction, metabolism and adaptation in cells. This is accomplished by simulating reproducing molecules, reactions which provide energy to the reproducing molecules and the adaptation ability of reproducing molecules.
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Goh, CL., Ewe, H.T., Goh, Y.K. (2014). Simulating Basic Cell Processes with an Artificial Chemistry System. In: Herawan, T., Ghazali, R., Deris, M. (eds) Recent Advances on Soft Computing and Data Mining. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 287. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07692-8_57
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