1. Open Questions on the Origin of Life (OQOL)—Introduction to the Special Issue

   • Pier Luigi Luisi
   • Yutetsu Kuruma

   Origin of Life 14 January 2015 Pages: 267 - 268

2. Essentials in the Life Process Indicated by the Self-Referential Genetic Code

   • Romeu Cardoso Guimarães

   Origin of Life 14 January 2015 Pages: 269 - 277

   

3. Protein Ordered Sequences are Formed by Random Joining of Amino Acids in Protein 0^th-Order Structure, Followed by Evolutionary Process

   • Kenji Ikehara

   Origin of Life 14 January 2015 Pages: 279 - 281

   

4. The Problems of Replication in the Early Stages of Evolution: Enumeration of Variants and Spatial Configurations of Replicators

   • Alexey V. Melkikh

   Origin of Life 25 January 2015 Pages: 283 - 285

5. Two Perspectives on the Origin of the Standard Genetic Code

   • Supratim Sengupta
   • Neha Aggarwal
   • Ashutosh Vishwa Bandhu

   Origin of Life 15 January 2015 Pages: 287 - 291

   

6. Spontaneous Mutual Ordering of Nucleic Acids and Proteins

   • Peter R. Wills

   Origin of Life 14 January 2015 Pages: 293 - 298

   

7. [GADV]-Protein World Hypothesis on the Origin of Life

   • Kenji Ikehara

   Origin of Life Open access 16 January 2015 Pages: 299 - 302

   

8. A New Start from Ground Zero?

   • Pier Luigi Luisi

   Origin of Life 25 January 2015 Pages: 303 - 306

   

9. The Power of Crowding for the Origins of Life

   • Helen Greenwood Hansma

   Origin of Life 14 January 2015 Pages: 307 - 311

   

10. Spontaneous Overcrowding in Liposomes as Possible Origin of Metabolism

    • Pier Luigi Luisi
    • Pasquale Stano
    • Tereza de Souza

    Origin of Life 22 January 2015 Pages: 313 - 317

    

11. Molecular Crowding and Early Evolution

    • Ranajay Saha
    • Andrew Pohorille
    • Irene A. Chen

    SPECIAL ISSUE OQOL 2014 14 January 2015 Pages: 319 - 324

    

12. Specific Transformation of Assembly with Actin Filaments and Molecular Motors in a Cell-Sized Self-Emerged Liposome

    • Kingo Takiguchi
    • Makiko Negishi
    • Kenichi Yoshikawa

    Origin of Life 15 January 2015 Pages: 325 - 329

    

13. Cell-Free Synthesis of SecYEG Translocon as the Fundamental Protein Transport Machinery

    • Hideaki Matsubayashi
    • Yutetsu Kuruma
    • Takuya Ueda

    Origin of Life 15 January 2015 Pages: 331 - 334

    

14. The Minimal Autopoietic Unit

    • Pier Luigi Luisi

    Origin of Life 14 January 2015 Pages: 335 - 338

    

15. Paradoxes in the Origin of Life

    • Steven A. Benner

    Origin of Life 22 January 2015 Pages: 339 - 343

16. Prebiotic Petroleum

    • Mekki-Berrada Ali

    ORIGIN OF LIFE 07 March 2015 Pages: 345 - 350

17. Emergence of Photoautotrophic Minimal Protocell-Like Supramolecular Assemblies, “Jeewanu” Synthesied Photo Chemically in an Irradiated Sterilised Aqueous Mixture of Some Inorganic and Organic Substances

    • Vinod Kumar Gupta

    ORIGIN OF LIFE 09 January 2015 Pages: 351 - 355

    

18. Towards Co-Evolution of Membrane Proteins and Metabolism

    • Michael A. Wilson
    • Chenyu Wei
    • Andrew Pohorille

    ORIGIN OF LIFE 23 January 2015 Pages: 357 - 361

    

19. What Properties of Life Are Universal? Substance-Free, Scale-free Life

    • Vic Norris

    ORIGIN OF LIFE 22 March 2015 Pages: 363 - 367