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Special Issue on Signal processing, biosensing, and computing with bio-inspired and biochemical systems.
This Special Issue of International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems is focused on ‘Signal processing, biosensing, and computing with bio-inspired and biochemical systems.’ It offers a convenient single reference for scientists working on topics of complex-step biosensing and other more applied systems, and those looking at bio-molecular/bio-inspired systems from the point of view of electrical engineering, computer science, or communication science approaches that involve increasing complexity for information/signal processing.
Articles ‘Architectures of nano-biointerfaces: Relevance to future biosensing, environment and energy applications,’ by M. Arugula, Y. Zhang, and A. Simonian; and ‘Insulin biosensor development: A case study’, by N. Sanghera, A. Anderson, N. Nuar, C. Xie, D. Mitchell, and J. Klein-Seetharaman offer presentations of results on biosensing systems. Complex ‘biomolecular computing’ systems are addressed in articles ‘Theoretical modeling expressions for networked enzymatic signal processing steps as logic gates optimized by filtering,’ by Vladimir Privman; and ‘Biocomputing approach in forensic analysis,’ by E. Brunelle and J. Halámek.
Uses of biological organisms for developing complex information/signal processing setups and their constituent ‘components’ are described in articles ‘Building wireless sensor networks with biological cultures: components and integration challenges,’ by F. Christophe, T. Laukkarinen, T. Mikkonen, J. Massera, and V. Andalibi; ‘On coupled oscillator dynamics and incident behaviour patterns in slime mould Physarum polycephalum: emergence of wave packets, global streaming clock frequencies and anticipation of periodic stimuli,’ by R. Mayne, J. Jones, E. Gale, and A. Adamatzky; and ‘Biosensors, memristors and actuators in electrical networks of plants,’ by A. G. Volkov. A related chemical-reaction approach is addressed in article ‘Reaction-diffusion chemistry implementation of associative memory neural network,’ by J. Stovold and S. O’Keefe.
It is hoped that this collection of articles will offer a useful reference to supplement available literature on some of the broad selection of interrelated topics unified by the quest for ‘unconventional information processing’ based on bio-inspired ideas and approaches or on biomolecular and biochemical processes, as tools for developing capabilities supplementary or alternative to the conventional electronic computer and sensor technologies. A selective, by no means exhaustive review-type literature list if offered by Refs. [Citation1–12]. The Editor wishes to thank all the authors of articles in this Special Issue for their excellent work.
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