Distributed computing with prokaryotic immune systems

  • Authors:

  • Niall Murphy;Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón

  • Affiliations:

  • Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain,CEI Campus Moncloa, UCM-UPM, Madrid, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ICARIS'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial Immune Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Summary: We propose the in vivo/vitro use of prokaryotic adaptive immune systems for distributed learning. In the coming years synthetic biologists will learn to control, program, and modify such systems. We design an enhancement to CRISPR-Cas immune systems and demonstrate the learning potential of the modified system by showing it can approximate solutions to a computationally hard problem. To our knowledge this is the first proposed use of CRISPR-Cas systems for computational purposes.