Organic Computing

Organic computers are based on living, biological "wetware". This video reports on organic computing research in areas including DNA storage and massively parallel DNA processing, as well as the potential development of biochips and entire biocomputers.

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Links to specific research cited in the video are as follows:

Professor William Ditto’s “Leech-ulator”:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/us-scientists-build-brainy-leech-computer/

Development of transcriptor at Stanford:
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/03/biological-transistor-enables-computing-within-living-cells-study-says.html

Harvard Medical School DNA storage:
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/writing-book-dna-8-16-12

Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski DNA storage:
http://pages.jh.edu/pfleming/bioinform/files/erlich_science_2017.pdf

Manchester University DNA parallel processing:
http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/128/20160990

All biocomputer and other CG animations included in this video were produced by and are copyright © Christopher Barnatt 2017.

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