technology

Unconventional and biohybrid computing

Living systems used as computing and sensing substrates — Physarum polycephalum cellular-automata models driving robot navigation, and fungal mycelial networks as distributed sensing and self-healing layers.

Where it's used

Biocomputing and DNA computing
Computation and storage carried out in molecules and living tissue rather than silicon — DNA archives with in-sequencer random access, error-correction codecs tolerating error rates near 14% and sequence loss up to 65%, genetic circuits implementing half and full adders, and biohybrid systems that compute with slime mould and fungal networks.
bioinformatics-omics 10 min