Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE AND DATA ACQUISITION 239 Microfluidic systems. Microfluidic systems, also known as micro-TAS (total analysi ...

240 CATALYZING INQUIRY Such arrays have been used in moths (Manduca sexta) and sea slugs (Tritonia diomeda) and, when linked dir ...

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE AND DATA ACQUISITION 241 7.2.2 Examples of Future Technologies As powerful as these technologies are, new in ...

242 CATALYZING INQUIRY While reliance on individuals with specialized technical skills is often a workable strategy for an acade ...

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE AND DATA ACQUISITION 243 identify specific microbeads.^27 Each bead can be interrogated in parallel, and the ...

244 CATALYZING INQUIRY location, and different probes are attached to different locations. Readout of hybridized probe-target pa ...

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE AND DATA ACQUISITION 245 6 years, with much of the savings coming from reduced repetitive motion injuries an ...

246 CATALYZING INQUIRY A further challenge in ultrasensitive data acquisition in living cells is that the substances of interest ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 247 247 8 BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING Chapters 4-7 address ways in which computer ...

248 CATALYZING INQUIRY They function with high degrees of autonomy. Some biological entities—such as neurons in a brain— can con ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 249 understood, or for which the relevant underlying technologies are too complex or unwiel ...

250 CATALYZING INQUIRY Incomplete (and sometimes even incorrect) biological understandings help to inspire different and useful ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 251 based on biological systems to function more effectively than models constructed using ...

252 CATALYZING INQUIRY biological principles to information processing” and “understanding biological information process- ing” ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 253 8.2 EXAMPLES OF BIOLOGY AS A SOURCE OF PRINCIPLES FOR COMPUTING 8.2.1 Swarm Intelligenc ...

254 CATALYZING INQUIRY A second simulation of flocking behavior, developed in 1990, employed the Reynolds’ rules (though they we ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 255 ing one another around and around and around until they die from starvation.^19 Such bl ...

256 CATALYZING INQUIRY highly distributed sensor system.^22 Each dust mote has sensors, processors, and wireless communica- tion ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 257 chemical spills lead to chemical concentration gradients in the soil and/or water; ecos ...

258 CATALYZING INQUIRY In fact, many of the techniques described as self-healing are familiar to the decades-old hardware field ...