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ArticleJournal of biological engineering2019

Marimo machines: oscillators, biosensors and actuators.

Neil Phillips, Thomas C Draper, Richard Mayne, Andrew Adamatzky

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Article in Journal of biological engineering, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Marimo for monitoring and filtering of aquatic environments.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025
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  2. Review
  3. Marimo actuated rover systems.Journal of biological engineering · 2022
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  5. Towards Embedded Computation with Building Materials.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Neil Phillips1Unconventional Computing Laboratory, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7878-0196
Thomas C Draper1Unconventional Computing Laboratory, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY UK.
Richard Mayne2Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY UK.
Andrew Adamatzky1Unconventional Computing Laboratory, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY UK.
University of the West of England · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe green algae balls (

resultsWe demonstrate that this ability can be harnessed to make actuators, biosensors and bioprocessors (oscillator, logic gates). Factors affecting Marimo movement have been studied to enable the design, construction and testing of working prototypes.

conclusionsA novel actuator design is reported, incorporating an enhanced bubble retention system and the design and optimisation of a bio-oscillator is demonstrated. A range of logic gates (or, and, nor, nand, xor) implementable with Marimo have been proposed.

Indexed as

AlgaeBioactuatorBiomimicryBiomotorBiosensorLogic gateMarimoOscillatorProcessorTRIZUnconventional Computing

Identifiers

PMID31508146
PMCPMC6724321
OpenAlexW2972264561

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Registered trials

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