Biocomputing and Synthetic Biology in Cells
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Methods".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 September 2020) | Viewed by 59434
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Interests: bioinformatics; parallel computing; deep learning; protein classification; genome assembly
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Dear Colleagues,
Biocomputing and synthetic biology have been two of the most exciting emerging fields in recent years. Biocomputing focuses on developing novel computational models beyond the Turing machine, such as DNA computing and membrane computing. It aims at to create a super machine in cells without any silicon. Synthetic biology, a more detailed extension of biocomputing, involves the design of circuits, simulations, and cell analysis. It is interdisciplinary, involving the chemical industry, biotechnology, computer science and mathematics.
For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of papers on new emerging topics or computational techniques in biocomputing and synthetic biology, particularly those involving interdisciplinary research.
Prof. Quan Zou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biocomputing
- DNA computing
- membrane computing
- bioinformatics
- neural computing
- computational systems biology
- synthetic biology
- bio-inspired computing
- DNA storage
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