David L. Abel

Department of ProtoBioCybernetics and ProtoBioSemiotics

Director, The Gene Emergence Project

The Origin of Life Science Foundation, Inc.



1. Abel, D. L., Is life unique?, Life, 2012, 2: (1) 106-134 Open access at http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/1/106/



2. Abel, D. L., What is ProtoBioCybernetics?, in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, Ed., New York, N.Y., LongView Press-Academic, 2011, 1-18



3. Abel, D. L., The three fundamental categories of reality, in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, Ed., New York, N.Y., LongView Press-Academic, 2011, 19-54



4. Abel, D. L., The Cybernetic Cut and Configurable Switch (CS) Bridge, in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, Ed., New York, N.Y., LongView Press, 2011, 55-74



5. Abel, D. L., What utility does order, pattern or complexity prescribe?, in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, Ed., New York, N.Y., LongView Press--Academic, 2011, 75-116



6. Abel, D. L., Linear Digital Material Symbol Systems (MSS), in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, Ed. New York, N.Y., LongView Press--Academic, 2011, 135-160



7. Abel, D. L., The Genetic Selection (GS) Principle, in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, Ed. New York, N.Y., LongView Press--Academic, 2011, 161-188



8. Abel, D. L., The Birth of Protocells, in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, New York, N.Y., LongView Press--Academic, 2011, 189-230



9. Abel, D. L., Examining specific life-origin models for plausibility, in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, Ed., New York, N.Y., LongView Press--Academic, 2011, 231-286



10. Abel, D. L., The Universal Plausibility Metric and Principle, in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, Ed., New York, N.Y., LongView Press--Academic, 2011, 305-324



11. Abel, D. L., The Formalism > Physicality (F > P) Principle, in The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, D. L. Abel, Ed., New York, N.Y., LongView Press--Academic, 2011, 325-356



12. Abel, D. L., The First Gene: The Birth of Programming, Messaging and Formal Control, New York, NY, LongView Press-Academic: Biolog. Res. Div., 2011



13. Abel, D. L., Constraints vs. Controls, Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, 2010, 4: 14-27 Open Access at http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tocsj/articles/V004/14TOCSJ.pdf Last accessed June, 2012



14. Abel, D. L., 2010, The Universal Plausibility Metric (UPM) & Principle (UPP) [Scirus SciTopic Page] http://scitopics.com/The_Universal_Plausbility_Metric_UPM_and_Principle_UPP.html, Last accessed June, 2012



15. Abel, D. L., 2010, The Law of Physicodynamic Incompleteness [Scirus SciTopics Page], http://www.scitopics.com/The_Law_of_Physicodynamic_Incompleteness.html, Last accessed June, 2012



16. Abel, D. L., The Genetic Selection (GS) Principle, Frontiers in Bioscience, 2009, 14: (January 1) 2959-2969 Open access at http://www.bioscience.org/2009/v14/af/3426/fulltext.htm



17. Abel, D. L., The capabilities of chaos and complexity, Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2009, 10: (Special Issue on Life Origin) 247-291 Open access at http://mdpi.com/1422-0067/10/1/247

18. Abel, D. L., 2009, The Genetic Selection (GS) Principle [Scirus Topic Page], http://www.scitopics.com/The_Genetic_Selection_GS_Principle.html, Last accessed June, 2012



19. Abel, D. L., The biosemiosis of prescriptive information,  Semiotica, 2009, 2009: (174) 1-19 http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/the-biosemiosis-of-prescriptive-information-7Hwt0CXMT7



20. Abel, D. L., 2009, Prescriptive Information (PI) [Scirus Topic Page], http://www.scitopics.com/Prescriptive_Information_PI.html Last accessed December, 2011

21. Abel, D. L., The Universal Plausibility Metric (UPM) & Principle (UPP), Theor Biol Med Model, 2009, 6: (1) 27 Open access at http://www.tbiomed.com/content/6/1/27



22. Abel, D. L., 'The Cybernetic Cut': Progressing from description to prescription in systems theory, The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, 2008, 2: 234-244 Open access at www.bentham.org/open/tocsj/articles/V002/252TOCSJ.pdf



23. Abel, D. L., The capabilities of chaos and complexity, Society for Chaos Theory: Society for Complexity in Psychology and the Life Sciences, International Conference at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA., 2008



24. Abel, D. L., 2008, The Cybernetic Cut [Scirus Topic Page],
http://www.scitopics.com/The_Cybernetic_Cut.html, Last accessed June, 2012



25. Abel, D. L., Complexity, self-organization, and emergence at the edge of chaos in life-origin models, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 2007, 93: (4) 1-20



26. Abel, D. L., Life origin: The role of complexity at the edge of chaos, Washington Science 2006, Headquarters of the National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA 2006



27. Abel, D. L., Is Life Reducible to Complexity?, in Fundamentals of Life, G. Palyi, C. Zucchi and L. Caglioti, Ed., Paris, Elsevier, 2002, 57-72



28. Abel, D. L., Short definitions of life, in Fundamentals of Life, G. Palyi, C. Zucchi and L. Caglioti, Paris, Elsevier, 2002, 15



29. Abel, D. L., Is Life Reducible to Complexity?, Workshop on Life: a satellite meeting before the Millennial World Meeting of University Professors, Modena, Italy, 2000, 3-4



30. Abel, D. L., To what degree can we reduce "life" without "loss of life"?, Workshop on Life: a satellite meeting before the Millenial World Meeting of University Professors, Modena, Italy, 2000, 4



31. D'Onofrio, D. J., Abel, D. L. and Johnson, D. E., Dichotomy in the definition of prescriptive information suggests both prescribed data and prescribed algorithms: biosemiotics applications in genomic systems, Theor Biol Med Model, 2012, 9: (1) 8 Open access at http://www.tbiomed.com/content/9/1/8



32. Durston, K. K., Chiu, D. K., Abel, D. L. and Trevors, J. T., Measuring the functional sequence complexity of proteins, Theor Biol Med Model, 2007, 4: 47 Free on-line access at http://www.tbiomed.com/content/4/1/47



33. Trevors, J. T. and Abel, D. L., Chance and necessity do not explain the origin of life, Cell Biology International, 2004, 28: 729-739