Enzyme Computation - Computing the Way Proteins Do
Jaime-Alberto Parra-Plaza, Jaime Velasco-Medina, Eduardo Caicedo-Bravo
It is presented enzyme computation, a computational
paradigm based on the molecular activity inside the
biological cells, particularly in the capacity of proteins to
represent information, of enzymes to transform that
information, and of genes to produce both elements
according to the dynamic requirements of a given system.
The paradigm explodes the rich computational possibilities
offered by metabolic pathways and genetic regulatory
networks and translates those possibilities into a
distributed computational space made up of active agents
which communicate through the mechanism of message
passing. Enzyme computation has been tested in diverse
problems, such as image processing, species classification,
symbolic regression, and constraints satisfaction. Also,
given its distributed nature, an implementation in
dynamical reconfigurable hardware has been possible. Full Text
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