From bioputing to bactoputing: computing with bacteria

Victor Norris; Abdallah Zemirline; Patrick Amar; Pascal Ballet; Eshel Ben Jacob; Gilles Bernot; Guillaume Beslon; Eric Fanchon; Jean-Louis Giavitto; Nicolas Glade; Patrick Greussay; Yohann Grondin; James A. Foster; Guillaume Hutzler; François Képès; Olivier Michel; Gradimir Misevic; Franck Molina; Jacqueline Signorini; Pasquale Stano; Alain Thierry

From bioputing to bactoputing: computing with bacteria

Victor Norris ¹ Abdallah Zemirline ² Patrick Amar ³ Pascal Ballet ² Eshel Ben Jacob ⁴ Gilles Bernot ⁵ Guillaume Beslon ⁶ Eric Fanchon ⁷ Jean-Louis Giavitto ⁸ Nicolas Glade ⁹ Patrick Greussay ¹⁰ Yohann Grondin ¹¹ James A. Foster ¹² Guillaume Hutzler ⁸ François Képès ¹³ Olivier Michel ⁸ Gradimir Misevic ¹ Franck Molina ¹⁴ Jacqueline Signorini ¹⁰ Pasquale Stano ¹⁵ Alain Thierry ¹⁶

1 AMMIS - Assemblages moléculaires : modélisation et imagerie SIMS

2 LISYC - Laboratoire d'Informatique des Systèmes Complexes

3 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique

4 School of Physics and Astronomy [Tel Aviv]

5 I3S - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis

6 LIRIS - Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information

7 IBS - UMR 5075 - Institut de biologie structurale

8 IBISC - Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes

9 NEANT

10 Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle [Saint-Denis]

11 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester]

12 Departement of Biological Sciences

13 Génopole [Evry]

14 DAA - Défenses antivirales et antitumorales

15 Enrico Fermi - Dipartimento di Fisica

16 Sysdiag - Sysdiag-Modélisation et Ingénierie des Systèmes Complexes Biologiques pour le Diagnostic

Abstract : The relevance of certain biological materials and processes to computing or bioputing has been explored for decades. These materials include DNA, RNA, enzymes and other proteins whilst the processes include transcription and translation (as well as the control of these processes by protein and by small RNA) and signal transduction. Recently, other directions have been envisaged using bacteria themselves as living computers. Generally, these uses of bacteria fall within the classical paradigm of computing. Computer scientists, however, have a variety of problems to which they seek solutions whilst microbiologists are having new insights into the problems bacteria are solving and how they are solving them. Here, we envisage that bacteria might be used for new sorts of computing. These might be based on the capacity of bacteria to grow, move and adapt to a myriad different fickle environments as both individuals and as populations of both bacteria and bacteriophage. This new computing may extend to developing a new high level language appropriate to using populations of bacteria and bacteriophage. Such new principles might be based on the way that bacteria explore phenotype space via hyperstructure dynamics and the fundamental nature of the cell cycle. Here we offer a speculative tour of what we term bactoputing, namely the use of the natural behaviour of bacteria and other cells for calculating.

Document type :

Conference papers

Domain :

Cognitive science / Computer science

Computer Science [cs] / Ubiquitous Computing

Computer Science [cs] / Logic in Computer Science [cs.LO]

Computer Science [cs] / Computation and Language [cs.CL]

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