Bacterial Computing and Molecular Communication

8 Controlling molecular motion

“…Non-equilibrium dynamics are important in computing and information processing, where the link between thermodynamics and information theory has long been understood theoretically [33] and more recently probed experimentally. [34] While most research in computing is concerned with electronic circuits, alternative computing architectures built from cellular automata, [35] DNA, [36] bacteria, [37] or molecules [38] have all attracted interest as possible platforms for information processing.…”

Molecular communication: Harnessing biochemical materials to engineer biomimetic communication systems

“…If artificially designed and controllable molecule-based communication systems that transmit biochemical information (e.g., status of living organisms) can be developed, which is not feasible using traditional communication, it may be possible to devise a new communication paradigm. In 2005, we named this concept 'molecular communication' [45] and have pioneered the research in this field [64,65,43,66,83]. Molecular communication provides molecule-based biomimetic communication mechanisms, and it allows biologically and artificially created nanoor microscale entities (e.g., biological cells and biohybrid devices) to communicate over a short distance.…”