Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing ebook

by Martyn Amos

This new technology will change the way we think - not just about computers, but about the nature of life itself. Includes bibliographical references and index. The logic of life - Birth of the machines - There's plenty of room at the bottom - The TT-100 - The gold rush - Flying fish and Feynman - Scrap-heap challenge.

'Biocomputing is perhaps the most fascinating and potentially important area of science there is at the moment, and this book is an excellent introduction. It's clear that this field will continue to throw up dramatic advances.

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Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing. Overlook Press, 2008. Going Back to our Roots : Second Generation Biocomputing. J Timmis, M Amos, W Banzhaf, A Tyrrell. International Journal of Unconventional Computing 2 (4), 349-378, 2006. The complexity and viability of DNA computations. M Amos, A Gibbons, PE Dunne. Nature's "machines" already contain the components we need. 353pp, Atlantic, £1. 9. If you thought molecular biology was an earnest business, look here: a scientist has coaxed strands of DNA into forming countless tiny smiley faces, a hundred times smaller than a red blood cell. Science-fiction authors tell stories of 'microbots' - incredibly tiny devices that can roam around under their own power, sensing their environment, talking to one another and destroying intruders," Amos notes. Such devices already exist, but we know them better as bacteria.

oceedings{Amos2006GenesisMT, title {Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing}, author {Martyn Amos}, year {2006} . A new generation of computers is coming-and it's like nothing we've seen before.

oceedings{Amos2006GenesisMT, title {Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing}, author {Martyn Amos}, year {2006} }. Martyn Amos. Today's leading scientists are building machines from real, wet, living biology. Cells, gels, and DNA strands are the "wetware" of the twentyfirst century, creating organic computers that open up revolutionary possibilities.

An interesting look at future technology in biocomputing.

This new technology will change the way we think - not just about computers, but about the nature of life itself. An interesting look at future technology in biocomputing.

The paperback version of the groundbreaking book about the next generation of computers: not only are they smaller they re alive. Cells, gels and DNA strands are the wetware of the twenty-first century. Imagine taking cells from a cancer patient and programming them to detect disease and then prompt the body to cure itself. Or clothes woven with microchips, nanofibres and living cells to form wearable bio-weapons detection systems.

The paperback version of the groundbreaking book about the next generation of computers: not only are they smallerthey're alive. Cells, gels, and DNA strands are the "wetware" of the twenty-first century. Imagine taking cells from a cancer patient and programming them to detect disease and then prompt the body to cure itself. Or clothes woven with microchips, nanofibers, and living cells to form wearable bio-weapons detection systems. Both of these revolutionary applications are closer than we think. Some scientists are pushing the boundaries even further by creating synthetic biology where brand new creatures are engineered in the laboratory. In this breathtaking book, a leading expert in the field reveals just how the stuff of science fiction is rapidly becoming a reality. This new technology will change the way we thinknot just about computers, but about the nature of life itself.

Xlisiahal

The book is a little dated, but still a good introduction. Some people may be a little put off by the author's frequent digressions, but I liked some of the background info.

Glei

Well-written book, goes over background material nicely and succinctly.

Dyni

This is a great book. If you like good popular science books then I highly recommend it. A very clear look at how the techniques being explored today in the rapidly increasing field of biocomputing were first discovered and applied. This book gives clear insight into how biocomputing can be used to solve so called NP complete problems or mathematical problems that electronic based computers find difficult. NP complete essentially means there is no quick way to solve the problem and instead you have to go through every possible answer, basically just letting the program run until it finds the right answer. When there are a lot of possible answers it can take a long time. Some problems mushroom out so as to become unmanagable. Using DNA as a building block for small boolean based computations all possibilities can be solved by mixing a vat containing all possible components (represented by prefabricated DNA)of the problem together. The answer will be in the vat somewhere and it is then a process of striping all the wrong answers to leave only the right answer.

Before reading the book I had no clear understanding of DNA and knew nothing about PCR sequencing, or Polymerase or any of the other tools described in the book. Now I feel comfortable enough to start downloading a few papers and watching the videos on [...].

It was a good book and I'll read it again.