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Subject: Re: Is this stuff for real?
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In article <Mar.8.16.32.40.1991.12453@athos.rutgers.edu> bill@braille.uwo.ca
(W.B. Carss) writes:

> How do we control what would essentially be mechanical errors?

The same way that we reduce errors in communications systems and computers:
error checking and correcting codes.  See:

@article{Schneider.ccmm,
author = "T. D. Schneider",
title = "Theory of Molecular Machines.
{I. Channel} Capacity of Molecular Machines",
journal = "J. Theor. Biol.",
volume = "148",
number = "1",
pages = "83-123",
year = 1991}

@article{Schneider.edmm,
author = "T. D. Schneider",
title = "Theory of Molecular Machines.
{II. Energy} Dissipation from Molecular Machines",
journal = "J. Theor. Biol.",
volume = "148",
number = "1",
pages = "125-137",
year = 1991}

>Bill Carss
>bill@braille.uwo.ca

(Kirk Reiser may be reading these in, ask him please.)

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov