Abstract
In the connection between biology and compution, which has been researched and
discussed in decades, one question seems notable by its absence: Where are the
programs?
The report below provides a short introduction to biomolecular
computing from Von Neumann to recent advances using process alegra for
modeling biochemical interactions. as well as a description of the
``blob-model''. The ``blob-model'' is a model of computation devised by
Hartmann, Jones and Simonsen[1]. The model provides machine
instructions possibly executable in a biomolecular setting and aim to enable
programmers to write programs which could be executed in a biomolecular context.
The model is claimed to be biological plausible, demonstrated programmable and
provably stored-program, universal, uniform and Turing-complete[1].
In an effort to support or disprove these claims
as well as explore the properties of the model, a visualization tool for
running the programs in the blob-model has been developed. This site provides
the downloadable program as well as
Based on the tool the report below provide a discussion on previously
undiscovered aspects of the blob-model.
[1] "Programming in Biomolecular Computation", by Hartmann, Simonsen and Jones,Computer Science to Biology, June 2010, CS2Bio