Crislaine KS Rocha
@crislaineksr.bsky.social
PhD student at the Biocomputation Lab, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CNB/CSIC
Reposted by Crislaine KS Rocha
Bacteria do compute and can be reprogrammed for new capacities—but not exactly by following Turing’s rules. Evolution, context dependence, and the soft-matter nature of living hardware redefine what computation means in biology. From @angelgm.bsky.social Lab 👉🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exploring the computing power of microbes that shapes the environment
Microbes process input information into output responses through diverse genetic and metabolic mechanisms, effectively making them physical systems th…
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January 8, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Bacteria do compute and can be reprogrammed for new capacities—but not exactly by following Turing’s rules. Evolution, context dependence, and the soft-matter nature of living hardware redefine what computation means in biology. From @angelgm.bsky.social Lab 👉🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Crislaine KS Rocha
New paper out!📢 Exploring the computing power of microbes that shapes the environment.
In this short review we talk about the "complexity gap", the distance between bottom-up genetic circuits and microbial information processes. Key questions to improve #biocomputation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
In this short review we talk about the "complexity gap", the distance between bottom-up genetic circuits and microbial information processes. Key questions to improve #biocomputation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
January 8, 2026 at 10:24 AM
New paper out!📢 Exploring the computing power of microbes that shapes the environment.
In this short review we talk about the "complexity gap", the distance between bottom-up genetic circuits and microbial information processes. Key questions to improve #biocomputation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
In this short review we talk about the "complexity gap", the distance between bottom-up genetic circuits and microbial information processes. Key questions to improve #biocomputation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...