07-13-2024, 04:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2024, 03:43 PM by ProxCenBound.)
This thread will serve as a library of published scientific papers and well-thought-out worldbuilding resources that are highly relevant to the topic of speculative biochemistry and planetary science, especially regarding exotic environments very unlike Earth.
I and others will add papers below, and as I get a chance I will edit them into this first post.
Scientific Papers
-Alternative Fundamental Water-Carbon Biochemistry
2021, Possibilities for an Aerial Biosphere in Temperate Sub Neptune-Sized Exoplanet Atmospheres
2019, An apparent binary choice in biochemistry: Mutual reactivity implies life chooses thiols or nitrogen-sulfur bonds, but not both (PDF)
2019, Many alternative and theoretical genetic codes are more robust to amino acid replacements than the standard genetic code (PDF)
2019, One Among Millions: The Chemical Space of Nucleic Acid-Like Molecules (no free version)
2017, Exploring astrobiology using in silico molecular structure generation
-Fundamental Exotic Biochemistry
2024, Alternative solvents for life: framework for evaluation, current status and future research
2024, Astrobiology Primer 3.0 Chapter 9: Life as We Don't Know It
2020, Can polarity-inverted membranes self-assemble on Titan? (also says that cell membranes may be unnecessary on Titan-like worlds)
2020, On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life
2017, Oxygen-free biochemistry: the putative CHN foundation for exotic life in a hydrocarbon world? (PDF)
2016, Titan as the Abode of Life
2015, Membrane alternatives in worlds without oxygen: Creation of an azotosome (note 2020 paper above rebutting this for Titan, but may be relevant for other worlds)
2014, Photosynthesis in Hydrogen-Dominated Atmospheres
2010, The Potential Feasibility of Chlorinic Photosynthesis on Exoplanets (no free version)
2007, The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems (book, free to read online)
2004, Is there a common chemical model for life in the universe? (PDF)
2004, Many chemistries could be used to build living systems (PDF)
1980, Life beyond Earth: the intelligent Earthling's guide to life in the universe (book, can be borrowed from Internet Archive with free account)
-Alien Flora
2023, Life Unknown: Preliminary Scheme for a Magnetotrophic Organism
2018, Biofluorescent worlds: global biological fluorescence as a biosignature
-Planetary Science
2024, The miscibility of hydrogen and water in planetary atmospheres and interiors
2022, CO2 ocean bistability on terrestrial exoplanets
2019, Diving into Exoplanets: Are Water Seas the Most Common?
Worldbuilding Resources
Structural Biological Materials, in Galactic Library
Worldbuilding Pasta
1996, World-Building (book, no free access)
Wikipedia Articles
Anaerobic organism
Foldamer
Hydrogenosome
Hypothetical types of biochemistry
Superhabitable world
Detailed Fictional Works
2023, The Living Crystals of Titan
2015, Ndiangu Mme Anwu System
I and others will add papers below, and as I get a chance I will edit them into this first post.
Scientific Papers
-Alternative Fundamental Water-Carbon Biochemistry
2021, Possibilities for an Aerial Biosphere in Temperate Sub Neptune-Sized Exoplanet Atmospheres
2019, An apparent binary choice in biochemistry: Mutual reactivity implies life chooses thiols or nitrogen-sulfur bonds, but not both (PDF)
2019, Many alternative and theoretical genetic codes are more robust to amino acid replacements than the standard genetic code (PDF)
2019, One Among Millions: The Chemical Space of Nucleic Acid-Like Molecules (no free version)
2017, Exploring astrobiology using in silico molecular structure generation
-Fundamental Exotic Biochemistry
2024, Alternative solvents for life: framework for evaluation, current status and future research
2024, Astrobiology Primer 3.0 Chapter 9: Life as We Don't Know It
2020, Can polarity-inverted membranes self-assemble on Titan? (also says that cell membranes may be unnecessary on Titan-like worlds)
2020, On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life
2017, Oxygen-free biochemistry: the putative CHN foundation for exotic life in a hydrocarbon world? (PDF)
2016, Titan as the Abode of Life
2015, Membrane alternatives in worlds without oxygen: Creation of an azotosome (note 2020 paper above rebutting this for Titan, but may be relevant for other worlds)
2014, Photosynthesis in Hydrogen-Dominated Atmospheres
2010, The Potential Feasibility of Chlorinic Photosynthesis on Exoplanets (no free version)
2007, The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems (book, free to read online)
2004, Is there a common chemical model for life in the universe? (PDF)
2004, Many chemistries could be used to build living systems (PDF)
1980, Life beyond Earth: the intelligent Earthling's guide to life in the universe (book, can be borrowed from Internet Archive with free account)
-Alien Flora
2023, Life Unknown: Preliminary Scheme for a Magnetotrophic Organism
2018, Biofluorescent worlds: global biological fluorescence as a biosignature
-Planetary Science
2024, The miscibility of hydrogen and water in planetary atmospheres and interiors
2022, CO2 ocean bistability on terrestrial exoplanets
2019, Diving into Exoplanets: Are Water Seas the Most Common?
Worldbuilding Resources
Structural Biological Materials, in Galactic Library
Worldbuilding Pasta
1996, World-Building (book, no free access)
Wikipedia Articles
Anaerobic organism
Foldamer
Hydrogenosome
Hypothetical types of biochemistry
Superhabitable world
Detailed Fictional Works
2023, The Living Crystals of Titan
2015, Ndiangu Mme Anwu System