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The paper recalls basic biological facts about living structures, as useful supports for molecular computing.Particular emphasis is made on membranes andproteins,whose structural andconformational dynamics might be considered as generating a computational environment in living systems.
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Vasilco, R., Popescu, A., Chiurtu, R., Dascalu, D. (2003). The Architecture of Living Structures -A Possible Basis for Molecular Computing. In: PĂun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., Zandron, C. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2597. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36490-0_29
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