Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2003-07-18
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
6 pages and 3 figures. Accepted for publication in the special issue of Chaos Solitons and Fractal dedicated to the conference
Scientific paper
We address the problem of enhancing the sensitivity of biosensors to the influence of toxicants, with an entropy method of analysis, denoted as CASSANDRA, recently invented for the specific purpose of studying non-stationary time series. We study the specific case where the toxicant is tetrodotoxin. This is a very poisonous substance that yields an abrupt drop of the rate of spike production at t approximatively 170 minutes when the concentration of toxicant is 4 nanomoles. The CASSANDRA algorithm reveals the influence of toxicants thirty minutes prior to the drop in rate at a concentration of toxicant equal to 2 nanomoles. We argue that the success of this method of analysis rests on the adoption of a new perspective of complexity, interpreted as a condition intermediate between the dynamic and the thermodynamic state.
Grigolini Paolo
Gross G.
Ignaccolo Massimiliano
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