Workshop on the origins of metabolism

Back in XXX, I participated in asdas.d There, I met asdasdas. We decided to continue working on the project, and have just completed our working group workshop.

• Before the evolution of a genetic system, a metabolic system needs to be in place, given that the genetic material is also metabolized
• To accomplish a metabolic function, enzymes would need to be encoded in a proto-genome, else the environment would need to provide what's needed for a reaction to occurr
• Thus, we modeled the trade-off between relying completely in the enviornment, which is cheap but unreliable, versus encoding every single function in the genome, which is an expensive strategy, but a reliable one

We are still working in the model, but so far things look cool.

We also got to see some of the yellow-ish leaves on the mountains near Hyde Park, which is quite a sight.