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Table 7.1 An analogy between atomic physics and cell biology based on the similarity

between line spectroscopy in atomic physics and cDNA microarray technology in cell

biology.

Parameter Atomic Physics Cell Biology

Time 19th–20th century 20th–21st century

Experimental

technique

Atomic absorption/emission

spectroscopy (19th century)

cDNA array technology

(“ribonoscopy”) (1995) [307–313]

Experimental data Atomic line spectra mRNA levels in the cell

Regularities Lyman series

Balmer series

Ritz-Paschen series

Brackett series

Pfund series

RNA metabolic modules (ribons) (?)

Genetic networks (?)

Cell metabolic networks (?)

Theoretical model Bohr’s atom (1913) The Bhopalator (1985) [15, 16]

Basic concepts Quantum of action (1900) The conformon (1972) [6, 14, 65]

IDSs (1985) [25, pp. 69–74]

Cell language theory (1977) [19–23]

Theory Quantum theory (1925) The conformon theory of

molecular machines (1974)

Cell language theory (1997)

Molecular information theory

(2004) [273]

Philosophy Complementarity (1915) Complementarism (1993) [24, 50]

A unified theory of

physics, biology,

and philosophy

A theory of everything (e.g., the Tarragonator (2005) [279])

concentrations inside the cell (such as exemplified by the RNA trajectories

shown in Figure 7.4). Since the mRNA levels are determined by both the

TR and TD (see Eq. (7.7)), ribons are species of IDSs (see Section 6.1.2).

The advantage and the utility of the term ribons derive from the fact that it

is directly connected to the rich results of the theories of dissipative struc-

tures worked out by Prigogine and others in the 1980s [58, 59].

7.3 Analysis of Human Breast Cancer Microarray Data

The human breast cancer RNA data analyzed below were obtained by

Perou et al. [306] from the human breast tissues biopsied from the normal

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