Magnus S. Magnusson
University of Iceland, Iceland
Title: Similarity of Hierarchical Structured Clustering in Human and Neuronal interactions and on DNA: Structural and Functional analogies.
Biography
Biography: Magnus S. Magnusson
Abstract
Hierarchical structured clustering (HSC) seems characteristic of the structure of the universe balancing a small number of forces, some pulling others pushing apart, the self-similar fractal distribution of matter in the universe thus reflecting HST rather than just dispersion or clumping. HSC also characterizes a proposed pattern type, called T-pattern, detected in the temporal organization of many kinds of verbal and non-verbal human, animal and neuronal behavior and interactions and is also characteristic of the structure of DNA. Functional analogies seem to exist between the occurrence of T-patterns in “cell city” and in human cities. Structural self-similarity over many levels of biological organization suggests the possibility of a unified (mathematical, bioinformatics and system biological) approach. The T-pattern is described as a repeated hierarchical and self-similar tree structure based on a single non-terminal relation, called a critical interval (CI) relationship. The instances of a T-pattern may be seen as repeated statistical pseudo-fractal objects characterized by statistically significant translation symmetry. THEMEtm (by M.S. Magnusson, ©PatternVision Ltd) is special purpose T-pattern detection and analysis PC software using a special CI detection algorithm combined with an evolution algorithm, presented here together with results from the analysis of behavior and interactions. From the relatively slow time scale of human and animal interactions to the much faster interactions within populations of neurons in living rat brains. Analogies are discussed between T-pattern structure and functions in the „cities of proteins“ (cell city) and human cities, especially regarding specialization and the particular case of religious behavior.