Molecular Computing and Bioinformatics
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2019) | Viewed by 125419
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular computing; membrane computing; neural computing; systems biology
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Interests: DNA computing; molecular computing; synthetic biology
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Interests: bioinformatics; parallel computing; deep learning; protein classification; genome assembly
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Molecular Computing and Bioinformatics are two important interdisciplinary sciences on molecules and computers. Molecular Computing is a branch of computing that uses DNA, biochemistry, and molecular biology hardware, instead of traditional silicon-based computer technologies. Research and development in this area concerns theory, experiments, and applications of molecular computing. The core advantage of molecular computing is the potential to pack vastly more circuitry onto a microchip than silicon will ever be capable of—and to do it cheaply. Molecules are only a few nanometers in size, making possible chips containing billions—even trillions—of switches and components. To develop molecular computers, computer scientists must draw on expertise in subjects not usually associated with their field, including organic chemistry, molecular biology, bioengineering, and smart materials. Bioinformatics works on the contrary, bioinformatics researchers develop novel algorithms or software tools for computing or predicting the molecular structure or function. Molecular Computing and Bioinformatics pays attention to the same object, have close relationships, but work towards different orientations.
The Guest Editors look forward to collecting a set of recent advances in the related topics, to provide a platform for researchers, and bridge computer researchers, bioengineers and molecular biologists.
Prof. Dr. Xiangxiang Zeng
Prof. Dr. Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón
Prof. Dr. Quan Zou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- DNA Computing
- neural computing
- self-assembling and self-organizing systems
- super-turing computation
- cellular automata
- evolutionary computation
- swarm intelligence
- ant algorithms
- artificial immune systems
- artificial life
- membrane computing
- amorphous computing
- computational systems biology
- computational neuroscience
- synthetic biology
- cellular (in-vivo) computing
- protein disorder region
- systems biology
- protein inter-residue contacts prediction
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