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The Architecture of Living Structures -A Possible Basis for Molecular Computing

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Membrane Computing (WMC 2002)

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The paper recalls basic biological facts about living structures, as useful supports for molecular computing.Particular emphasis is made on membranes andproteins,whose structural andconformational dynamics might be considered as generating a computational environment in living systems.

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  1. National R&D Institute of Microtechnology, Bucharest, Romania

    Roxana Vasilco, Alina Popescu, Ruxandra Chiurtu & Dan Dascalu

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  1. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, P.O. Box 1-764, 70700, Bucharest, Romania

    Gheorghe PĂun

  2. Leiden University, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, CA Leiden, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

  3. Turku Centre for Computer Science, Lemminkäisenkatu 14A, 20520, Turku, Finland

    Arto Salomaa

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8, 20126, Milano, Italy

    Claudio Zandron

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Vasilco, R., Popescu, A., Chiurtu, R., Dascalu, D. (2003). The Architecture of Living Structures -A Possible Basis for Molecular Computing. In: PĂun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Zandron, C. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2597. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36490-0_29

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