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Gibbs free energy as a measure of complexity correlates with time within C. elegans embryonic development

Samuel H McGuire1, Edward A Rietman1, Hava Siegelmann1

  • 1College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.

Journal of Biological Physics
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