A synthetic biology approach to bio-chem-ICT: First moves towards chemical communication between synthetic and natural cells

Natural Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 333-349

  Rampioni, Giordano ^a   Mavelli, Fabio ^b   Damiano, Luisa ^c   D'Angelo, Francesca ^a   Messina, Marco ^a   Leoni, Livia ^a   Stano, Pasquale ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Autonomy; Autopoiesis; Bio chem ICTs; Molecular communication; Quorum sensing; Synthetic biology; Synthetic cells

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUTO-POIESIS; AUTONOMY; BIO-CHEM-ICTS; MOLECULAR COMMUNICATION; QUORUM-SENSING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

CYTOLOGY;

DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; MESSENGER RNA; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE;

ARTIFICIAL CELL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOPOIESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIPID BILAYER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NATURAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84906781110     PISSN: 15677818     EISSN: 15729796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11047-014-9425-x     Document Type: Review

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