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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2021

A Framework for Implementing Metaheuristic Algorithms Using Intercellular Communication.

Yerko Ortiz, Javier Carrión, Rafael Lahoz-Beltrá, Martín Gutiérrez

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Yerko OrtizSchool of Informatics and Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
Javier CarriónSchool of Informatics and Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
Rafael Lahoz-BeltráDepartment of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution (Biomathematics), Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Martín GutiérrezSchool of Informatics and Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metaheuristics (MH) are Artificial Intelligence procedures that frequently rely on evolution. MH approximate difficult problem solutions, but are computationally costly as they explore large solution spaces. This work pursues to lay the foundations of general mappings for implementing MH using Synthetic Biology constructs in cell colonies. Two advantages of this approach are: harnessing large scale parallelism capability of cell colonies and, using existing cell processes to implement basic dynamics defined in computational versions. We propose a framework that maps MH elements to synthetic circuits in growing cell colonies to replicate MH behavior in cell colonies. Cell-cell communication mechanisms such as quorum sensing (QS), bacterial conjugation, and environmental signals map to evolution operators in MH techniques to adapt to growing colonies. As a proof-of-concept, we implemented the workflow associated to the framework: automated MH simulation generators for the

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agent based modelbioinspired algorithmscell-cell communicationframeworkgrometaheuristicssynthetic biology

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PMCPMC8141851

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