20.20/Biocomputing
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Vision
To develop novel models of computation appropriate to the biological world.
Team Members
20.20 Students
- Kelly Drinkwater (Foo)
- Raphael Rush (Bar)
- Star Simpson (Baz)
20.902 Students
- Kay Aull
- Stephanie Nix
Brainstorming
- Biological neural nets
- DNA-encoded Turing machine
- Adder circuit
- PCR readout for genetic switches
- Addressable DNA modification based on RNA input
- Fix scaling issues
- RNA binding screens
- Circuit elements of protein cascades
- Ontology for standard biological parts
Directory of Interesting Things
A DNA and Restriction Enzyme Implementation of Turing Machines
The Neurally Controlled Animat: Biological Brains Acting with Simulated Bodies
Ron Weiss's web page. He also wrote a really interesting review paper a few years back on the subject. I can't remember where it is...
Computing with DNA. Shortish review in Nature by Jack Parker, describing Adleman's traveling-salesman solver and Shapiro's Turing-machine-oid.