Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC 20015, USA.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
J R Soc Interface. 2024 Nov;21(220):20240622. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0622. Epub 2024 Nov 20.
We clarify misunderstandings of Walker et al. (Walker 2024 21, 20240367 (doi:10.1098/rsif.2024.0367)) related to studies of the assembly pathways of molecular subunits in minerals. The finding that these subunits have calculated assembly pathways less than approximately 25 informs a central premise of Assembly Theory-that only life can produce numerous copies of molecules with assembly indices above a threshold value. What that threshold value might be, and whether the same value applies to chemical systems as different as organic and inorganic molecules, are questions deserving of additional study.
我们澄清了对沃克等人（Walker 2024 21, 20240367（doi:10.1098/rsif.2024.0367))）的研究的误解，这些研究涉及到分子亚基在矿物中的组装途径。这些亚基的计算组装途径小于约 25 的发现，为组装理论的一个中心前提提供了信息——只有生命才能产生大量具有高于阈值组装指数的分子。这个阈值可能是多少，以及对于有机和无机分子等不同的化学系统是否适用相同的数值，都是值得进一步研究的问题。
