IGEM:MIT/2005/Potpourri of ideas from summer 2004

Some ideas from summer 2004
(brainstorming fodder):


 * 1) Information Processing Ideas
 * 2) Latch
 * 3) Half adder $$\rightarrow$$ Full Adder
 * 4) Counter
 * 5) Other Ideas
 * 6) Chemotaxis $$\rightarrow$$ patterns
 * 7) Intercellular Communication
 * 8) Multiple cell types
 * 9) *possibly with similar machinery, but restricted means of communicating with each other
 * 10) *similarly, usage of different cell types to allow component reuse
 * 11) Color changing
 * 12) Coupling function to selection mechanisms
 * 13) Encoding in unstable clocks and out mechanisms
 * 14) 3D Patterns
 * 15) *from cells
 * 16) *from proteins
 * 17) Integrate quorum sensing
 * 18) Phage interactions [what does this mean?]
 * 19) Temperature sensitive latch
 * 20) Cellular automata
 * 21) Inputs Signals:
 * 22) chemicals
 * 23) nutrients/food
 * 24) antibiotics
 * 25) small molecules (e.g., IPTG)
 * 26) temperature
 * 27) light
 * 28) charge
 * 29) sound
 * 30) magnetic field
 * 31) electricity
 * 32) gravity
 * 33) Output Reporters
 * 34) motion
 * 35) run away!
 * 36) move towards something (i like that? do i like that? i like that?)
 * 37) fluoresence/light emission
 * 38) death!
 * 39) growth
 * 40) raw concentrations (what does this mean?)
 * 41) form a bio-film
 * 42) change color
 * 43) eat something