A recently published collaborative paper in Nature Communications argues that living matter offers entirely new opportunities for digital and analogue computation.
Co-Author and SynthSys PI Diego Oyarzun says ' We call this 'cellular supremacy', akin to the concept of quantum supremacy recently popularised by the latest research at Google. Living cells provide a different computing substrate than silicon, which paves the way for exploring unconventional models of computation beyond combinatorial circuits and towards non-Turing models. In the paper we discuss domains in which biocomputing may offer superior performance over traditional computers.'
This is a result of a cross-institutional collaboration between computer scientists, physicist and computational biologists.
Paper: Pathways to cellular supremacy in biocomputing
Photo: Dr Diego Oyarzun, University of Edinburgh