ReviewInterface focus2018
Something has to give: scaling combinatorial computing by biological agents exploring physical networks encoding NP-complete problems.
Review in Interface focus, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Engineering signalling pathways in mammalian cells.Nature biomedical engineering · 2024Review
- Optical Image Sensors for Smart Analytical Chemiluminescence Biosensors.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Microfluidics on lensless, semiconductor optical image sensors: challenges and opportunities for democratization of biosensing at the micro-and nano-scale.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2023Review
- Nanolithographic Fabrication Technologies for Network-Based Biocomputation Devices.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Patterns of bacterial motility in microfluidics-confining environments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- A scalable photonic computer solving the subset sum problem.Science advances · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
8 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
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Abstract
On-chip network-based computation, using biological agents, is a new hardware-embedded approach which attempts to find solutions to combinatorial problems, in principle, in a shorter time than the fast, but sequential electronic computers. This analytical review starts by describing the underlying mathematical principles, presents several types of combinatorial (including NP-complete) problems and shows current implementations of proof of principle developments. Taking the subset sum problem as example for in-depth analysis, the review presents various options of computing agents, and compares several possible operation 'run modes' of network-based computer systems. Given the brute force approach of network-based systems for solving a problem of input size C, 2
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