title: The biological microprocessor, or how to build a computer with biological parts.
abstract: Systemics, a revolutionary paradigm shift in scientific thinking, with applications in systems biology, and synthetic biology, have led to the idea of using silicon computers and their engineering principles as a blueprint for the engineering of a similar machine made from biological parts. Here we describe these building blocks and how they can be assembled to a general purpose computer system, a biological microprocessor. Such a system consists of biological parts building an input / output device, an arithmetic logic unit, a control unit, memory, and wires (busses) to interconnect these components. A biocomputer can be used to monitor and control a biological system.
authors.affiliation: Leukippos Institute, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Gerd Hg
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Moe-Behrens