title: Non-discrete biomolecular computing: an approach to computational complexity.
abstract: General principles of information processing at the molecular level inherent in simple biological and biomolecular entities can be used to elaborate essentially new non-discrete information-processing devices. These principles are: giant parallelism of information processing; processing mechanisms based on complicated non-linear dynamics; high efficiency of information transformations; considerable behavioral complexity of computational (pseudoelementary) primitives; and the possibility of variation and evolution of the molecular components of information-processing devices, including the possibility of evolutionary learning. Problems of high computational complexity are currently of great practical importance. Non-discrete biomolecular information-processing devices seem to be able to solve effectively some classes of problems of high computational complexity.
authors.affiliation: International Research Institute for Management Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Rambidi
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003199:Computer Systems; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D007089:Image Enhancement; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics