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In living systems, we often see the emergence of the ingredients necessary for computation -- the capacity for information transmission, storage, and modification -- begging the question of how we may exploit or imitate such biological…

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As it is getting increasingly difficult to achieve gains in the density and power efficiency of microelectronic computing devices because of lithographic techniques reaching fundamental physical limits, new approaches are required to…

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Biomolecular computers, along with quantum computers, may be a future alternative for traditional, silicon-based computers. Main advantages of biomolecular computers are massive parallel processing of data, expanded capacity of storing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Janusz Blasiak , Tadeusz Krasinski , Tomasz Poplawski , Sebastian Sakowski

Our understanding of the physics of biological molecules, such as proteins and DNA, is limited because the approximations we usually apply to model inert materials are not in general applicable to soft, chemically inhomogeneous systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Sarah Harris , Vivien M. Kendon

Developing complex biomolecular workflows is not always straightforward. It requires tedious developments to enable the interoperability between the different biomolecular simulation and analysis tools. Moreover, the need to execute the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jorge Ejarque , Pau Andrio , Adam Hospital , Javier Conejero , Daniele Lezzi , Josep LL. Gelpi , Rosa M. Badia

One of the defining features of living systems is their adaptability to changing environmental conditions. This requires organisms to extract temporal and spatial features of their environment, and use that information to compute the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-27 Maria Sol Vidal-Saez , Oscar Vilarroya , Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

The term ``neuromorphic'' refers to systems that are closely resembling the architecture and/or the dynamics of biological neural networks. Typical examples are novel computer chips designed to mimic the architecture of a biological brain,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Dario Izzo , Alexander Hadjiivanov , Dominik Dold , Gabriele Meoni , Emmanuel Blazquez

The complexity of biological systems and processes, spanning molecular to macroscopic scales, necessitates the use of multiscale simulations to get a comprehensive understanding. Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) molecular…

The Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) promises to revolutionize healthcare by interfacing the cyber domain with the living systems at unprecedented resolution. Realizing this vision hinges on the development of Bio-Nano Things (BNTs),…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ekin Ince , Murat Kuscu

The fields of computing and biology have begun to cross paths in new ways. In this paper a review of the current research in biological computing is presented. Fundamental concepts are introduced and these foundational elements are explored…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Balaji Akula , James Cusick

Deep learning's success comes with growing energy demands, raising concerns about the long-term sustainability of the field. Spiking neural networks, inspired by biological neurons, offer a promising alternative with potential computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Adalbert Fono , Manjot Singh , Ernesto Araya , Philipp C. Petersen , Holger Boche , Gitta Kutyniok

DNA sequence analysis is fundamental to life science research. The rapid development of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, and the richness and diversity of applications it makes feasible, have created an enormous gulf between…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Shel Swenson , Yogesh Simmhan , Viktor Prasanna , Manish Parashar , Jason Riedy , David Bader , Richard Vuduc

Increasingly sophisticated experiments, coupled with large-scale computational models, have the potential to systematically test biological hypotheses to drive our understanding of multicellular systems. In this short review, we explore key…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-28 Paul Macklin

Convolutional Neural Networks have dramatically improved in recent years, surpassing human accuracy on certain problems and performance exceeding that of traditional computer vision algorithms. While the compute pattern in itself is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Michaela Blott , Thomas B. Preusser , Nicholas Fraser , Giulio Gambardella , Kenneth OBrien , Yaman Umuroglu , Miriam Leeser

Quantum computers can in principle solve certain problems exponentially more quickly than their classical counterparts. We have not yet reached the advent of useful quantum computation, but when we do, it will affect nearly all scientific…

For decades, researchers have been applying computer simulation to address problems in biology. However, many of these "grand challenges" in computational biology, such as simulating how proteins fold, remained unsolved due to their great…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-01-08 Stefan M. Larson , Christopher D. Snow , Michael Shirts , Vijay S. Pande

Biological organisms must perform computation as they grow, reproduce, and evolve. Moreover, ever since Landauer's bound was proposed it has been known that all computation has some thermodynamic cost -- and that the same computation can be…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-07 Christopher P. Kempes , David Wolpert , Zachary Cohen , Juan Pérez-Mercader

Recent years have witnessed the growing scholarly interest in the next-generation general-purpose computers. Various innovative computing modes have been proposed, such as optical, quantum phenomena, and DNA-based modes. Sequential logic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Han Huang , Chengzhi Ma , Yuxin Zhao , Qingyao Wang , Xinglong Xiao , Xiulin Shu , Zhifeng Hao

The rapid proliferation of Deep Learning is increasingly constrained by its heavy reliance on high-performance hardware, particularly Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). These specialized accelerators are not only prohibitively expensive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Emrah Mete , Emin Erkan Korkmaz

Nanoscale biosystems are widely used in numerous medical applications. The approaches for structure and function of the nanomachines that are available in the cell (natural nanomachines) are discussed. Molecular simulation studies have been…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Babu A Manjasetty , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Y. S. Ramaswamy