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2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Cellular Computing
Published in: Theoretical and Experimental DNA Computation
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In this chapter we have introduced the notion of computing with and inside living cells and reviewed several models for the assembly of genes in ciliates. Although the fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying the operations within these models are still not well-understood, they do suggest possible areas of experimental enquiry. Looking further ahead, it may well be that in the future these mechanisms may even be exploited by using ciliates as prototype cellular computers. This engineering process has already begun, and we have cited several successful examples of the genetic modification of organisms for computational purposes.