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Chemlambda for the people

We can program a computer to do anything. What if we had the same power over the molecules of our bodies? Let's imagine how this could change our lives.

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"still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void"

William Gibson, Neuromancer

"like making lists, just, fold up inside themselves. Come out the other way around. Crazy things."

Pseudo -- William Gibson

https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-interview#comment-2763

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Digital-to-biological-converter

source: Digital-to-biological converter for on-demand production of biologics, Kent S Boles, Krishna Kannan, John Gill, Martina Felderman, Heather Gouvis, Bolyn Hubby, Kurt I Kamrud, J Craig Venter and Daniel G Gibson, Nature 2017,doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3859

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digital chemistry

to biological chemistry

and back

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Step 1. Build a digital chemistry which we can program.

In a digital chemistry data and programs are all graph like structures, digital molecules which fold up inside themselves and come out the other way around only they do it randomly, like in real chemistry.

to biological chemistry

and back

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Step 1. Build a digital chemistry which we can program.

In a digital chemistry data and programs are all graph like structures, digital molecules which fold up inside themselves and come out the other way around only they do it randomly, like in real chemistry.

Step 2. Use Nature to simulate this digital chemistry.

Find a digital-to-biological dictionary from the elementary bricks of the digital chemistry to real biomolecular bricks.

and back

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Step 1. Build a digital chemistry which we can program.

In a digital chemistry data and programs are all graph like structures, digital molecules which fold up inside themselves and come out the other way around only they do it randomly, like in real chemistry.

Step 2. Use Nature to simulate this digital chemistry.

Find a digital-to-biological dictionary from the elementary bricks of the digital chemistry to real biomolecular bricks.

Step 3. Build digital-to-biological converters and biological-to-digital sensors.

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chemlambda

to biological chemistry

and back

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