Work Package 5 of the PRELIFE project, led by Dr. Rick Quax, aims to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the emergence of life using information theory and complex systems approaches. This work package focuses on creating a quantitative framework to measure emergent properties of chemical systems relevant to pre-biotic origin of life, such resilience to noise, adaptation, and memory. By applying concepts from information theory and dynamical systems, Quax and his team seek to bridge the gap between molecular-level chemistry and system-level behaviors that exhibit life-like properties. This interdisciplinary approach could provide quantitative metrics for "lifeness" and reveal patterns in the emergence of biological complexity from simple chemical building blocks. The development of new computational tools to analyze and compare different chemical models and experiments related to the origin of life is expected to unify diverse experimental and theoretical approaches under a common mathematical framework, potentially advancing our understanding of life's origins.'