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H G E Hentschel1, Alan Fine, C S Pencea
1Department of Physics, Emory University Atlanta GA 30322. phshgeh@physics.emory.edu.
Abstract:
Intracellular signaling often employs excitable stores of calcium coupled by diffusion. We investigate the ability of various geometric configurations of such excitable stores to generate a complete set of logic gates for computation. We also describe how the mechanism of excitable calciuminduced calcium release can be used for constructing coincidence detectors for biological signals.
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