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Biology of the Physarum polycephalum Plasmodium: Preliminaries for Unconventional Computing Read chapter Read first chapter

2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Chemical Sensors and Information Fusion in Physarum

Authors : James G. H. Whiting, Ben De Lacy Costello, Andrew Adamatzky

Published in: Advances in Physarum Machines

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

We show how the slime mould can be used as a chemical sensor and investigate how the organism combines different sensory information. We have produced a biosensor using protoplasmic tubes of Physarum which is capable of detecting various biologically active chemicals in the local environment; this progress is akin to developing a biological nose using the organism’s natural sensing ability.

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Metadata
Title
Chemical Sensors and Information Fusion in Physarum
Authors
James G. H. Whiting
Ben De Lacy Costello
Andrew Adamatzky
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Advances in Physarum Machines

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-26661-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-26662-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_11

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