Computing with Genetic Gates

  • Authors:
  • Nadia Busi;Claudio Zandron

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Bologna, Mura A. Zamboni 7, I-40127 Bologna, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, I-20126, Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • CiE '07 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Computability in Europe: Computation and Logic in the Real World
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We introduce Genetic Systems, a formalism inspired by genetic regulatory networks and suitable for modeling the interactions between the genes and the proteins, acting as regulatory products.The generation of new objects, representing proteins, is driven by genetic gates: a new object is produced when all the activator objects are available in the system, and no inhibitor object is available. Activators are not consumed by the application of such an evolution rule. Objects disappear because of degradation: each object is equipped with a lifetime, and the object decays when such a lifetime expires.We investigate the computational expressiveness of Genetic Systems: we show that they are Turing equivalent by providing an encoding of Random Access Machines in Genetic Systems.