Biological computing with diffusion and excitable calcium stores.
Intracellular signaling often employs excitable stores of calcium coupled by diffusion. We investigate the ability of various geometric configurations of such excitable stores to generate a complete set of logic gates for computation. We also describe how the mechanism of excitable calciuminduced calcium release can be used for constructing coincidence detectors for biological signals.
Hentschel
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HG
Department of Physics, Emory University Atlanta GA 30322. phshgeh@physics.emory.edu.
Fine
Alan
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Pencea
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