Bacteria new computers!

Lot of us had a query in our childhood “ is the virus that affects computer can affect us” the answer we received for that query is NO, but nowadays it has a chance to became YES

Yes there is a possibility for that

Computerized bacteria:

Bacterial genome created entirely with a computer

Bacterized computer:

computation by bacteria

The bacteria are single-celled microorganism, These organisms can live in soil, the ocean and inside the human gut.

Humans’ relationship with bacteria is complex. Sometimes bacteria lend us a helping hand, such as by curdling milk into yoghurt or helping with our digestion. In other cases, bacteria are destructive, causing diseases like pneumonia

But now the bacteria are getting ready to enter into the new era of computing know as biological computing

here we comparing the E Coli bacteria and raspberry pi (a credit card-sized computer)

Flagellum → Actuator (used to move or sometimes used as output devices )

Receptors →sensor (used to detect changes in its environment)

Pilus → Transceiver (used for both transmission and receiving of the signal)

DNA → CPU (control unit, memory, processing unit )

The above things resemble the parts of a modern computer, the above this had made it possible to compute using bacteria

Receptors and Actuator as sensors

Bacteria can sense a wide range of parameters which includes a photo, chemo, mechanical, the temperature even for the electromagnetic field where the sensed parameter is processed according to the DNA and the outputs have resulted in a change in motion, change in colour, change in the production of proteins

Pilus as Transceiver

pilus are involved in release and import of molecules as part of cell signalling pathways. Additionally, the bacterial pilus is used for conjugation process between two cells which results in DNA exchange is known as cell communication

Cell communication is the process by which a cell detects and responds to signals in its environment.

• Most single-celled organisms can perceive changes in nutrient availability and adapt their metabolism as needed.
• Some single-celled organisms may utilize environmental signals to locate a suitable mate; some send signals to make their numbers known to other members of their species.

DNA as memory

DNA is buildability four base components: Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine and Thymine

Our electronics industries are based on the storage of information in bits, whereas DNA information is stored in strings of four potential base units.

Bits (1001100111)

DNA Sequence (AGTCATGAC)

So, to store non-genetic information in DNA, we must first translate binary data from bits to the four-unit (AGCT) structure of DNA data.

This may create another conversion method like digital to analogue or analogue to digital like digital to a DNA sequence

where here the data can be stored in the DNA

DNA as Control Unit, Processor

The bacteria generally have two forms of DNA

1: genomic DNA (contains instruction for basics cell function for survival)

2: plasmids, where it used for a wide-area range of genomes, are introduced for the various purpose where they can be used as a region of space for storage of instruction where here the instruction is converted into the DNA sequence

where the instruction is reacted with input collected through the receptors and synthesize the output either as a physical parameter or DNA sequence depend upon the instruction and further it is decoded and the digital signals are generated back

all the above heading may give us a basics idea of bacterial computing for further reference

possibilities of bacterial computer

<>The advantages of bacteria it can be used either in water or on the water, the where the energy Consumption is low

<>The network of such large computing can be obtained by cell communication and molecular communication

<>Biological virus are the particles which have malfunctioning DNA sequence in bacterial computing those viruses can alter the entire DNA of the bacteria which leads in the failure of computation if we attain bacterial computation then the computer are also affected by the virus which affect humans

limitation

here we are just a decade away from the bacterial computer: which can change our view of computing from electrical to biological

“This denotes nature has a solution for all our human needs the only thing we need is patient”