TY - JOUR AU - Wu, Meng AU - Higgs, Paul G. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/11/24 TI - The origin of life is a spatially localized stochastic transition JO - Biology Direct SP - 42 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Life depends on biopolymer sequences as catalysts and as genetic material. A key step in the Origin of Life is the emergence of an autocatalytic system of biopolymers. Here we study computational models that address the way a living autocatalytic system could have emerged from a non-living chemical system, as envisaged in the RNA World hypothesis. SN - 1745-6150 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-7-42 DO - 10.1186/1745-6150-7-42 ID - Wu2012 ER -