Biological computation

The term "biological computation" refers, variously, to any of the following:

- the study of the computations performed by natural biota,^{[1][2][3] [4]}including the subject matter of Systems Biology.

- the design of algorithms inspired by the computational methods of biota ^[5]

- the design and engineering of manufactured computational devices using synthetic biology components^[6][7]

- computer methods^[8] for the analysis of biological data, elsewhere called computational biology

When biological computation refers to using biology to build computers, it is a subfield of computer science and is distinct from the interdisciplinary science of bioinformatics which simply uses computers to better understand biology.

Books

• Biological computation (2011) by Ehud Lamm and Ron Unger, CRC Press, ISBN 978-1-4200-8796-3.

References

1. Mitchell, M. (2010) Biological Computation. http://www.santafe.edu/media/workingpapers/10-09-021.pdf
2. Didales, K. (2007) Being - Our New Understanding of the Meaning of Life. https://sites.google.com/site/djhbrown2/IPM.pdf
3. Bray, D. Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell (2009) ISBN 0-300-14173-4, ISBN 978-0-300-14173-3
4. NIMBios (2015) Information and entropy in biological systems http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_entropy
5. Lamm, E. and Unger, R. Biological Computation. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011.
6. Biological Computation Group at MIT - Psrg.csail.mit.edu "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
7. Sergi Regot, Javier Macia, Núria Conde, Kentaro Furukawa, Jimmy Kjellén, Tom Peeters, Stefan Hohmann, Eulàlia de Nadal, Francesc Posas & Ricard Solé (2011) Distributed biological computation with multicellular engineered networks. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v469/n7329/full/nature09679.html
8. Biological Computation - Microsoft Research. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/biology