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Integrative Toolkit to Analyze Cellular Signals: Forces, Motion, Morphology, and Fluorescence
Published on: March 5, 2022
The data-and-signals cellular automaton and its application to growing structures
Abstract:
In a traditional cellular automaton (CA) a cell is implemented by a rule table defining its state at the next time step, given its present state and those of its neighbors. The cell thus deals only with states. We present a novel CA where the cell handles data and signals. The cell is designed as a digital system comprising a processing unit and a control unit. This allows the realization of various growing structures, including self-replicating loops and biomorphs. We also describe the hardware implementation of these structures within our electronic wall for bio-inspired applications, the BioWall.
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