Biological Computing

Figure 1. Taken from Ref. [1].

2 latest NATURE papers on biological logic gates, or biological computing [2, 3]. The logics behind them look more sophisticated!

These works are covered in a NATURE coverage. [1]

References:

1. Synthetic biology: Division of logic labour
Bochong Li & Lingchong You
Nature 469, 171–172 (13 January 2011)
doi:10.1038/469171a

2. Distributed biological computation with multicellular engineered networks
Sergi Regot, Javier Macia, Núria Conde, Kentaro Furukawa, Jimmy Kjellén, Tom Peeters, Stefan Hohmann, Eulàlia de Nadal, Francesc Posas & Ricard Solé
Nature 469, 207–211 (13 January 2011)
doi:10.1038/nature09679

3. Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical ‘wires’
Alvin Tamsir, Jeffrey J. Tabor & Christopher A. Voigt
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Nature 469, 212–215 (13 January 2011)
doi:10.1038/nature09565