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DR. MARTYN AMOS
The New Scientist article
Enzyme computer could live inside you said
A molecular
computer that uses enzymes to perform calculations has been
built by researchers in Israel...
Martyn Amos from University of Exeter, UK, also sees great potential for
such devices. "The development of fundamental devices such as counters is
vital for the future success of bio-molecular computers", he told New
Scientist.
"If such counters could be engineered inside living cells, then we can
imagine them playing a role in applications such as intelligent drug
delivery, where a therapeutic agent is generated at the site of a
problem", Amos says. "Counters would also offer a biological 'safety
valve', to prevent engineered cells proliferating in an uncontrolled
fashion."
Dr. Martyn Amos is Senior Lecturer in
Computing and Mathematics at
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
and was
Visiting Professor at
University of the Balearic Islands.
He earned the world's first Ph.D. in
DNA Computation
from the
University of Warwick in 1997 and also
maintains the
"Martyn Amos" blog.
Martyn is interested in the intersection between computer
science and biology. His research interests include
molecular and
cellular
computing (the use of organic and living materials for the
construction
of micro and nano-scale computing devices),
artificial life (the study of
"life as it could be"), complex systems, and
bio-inspired algorithmics
(for example, the development of new optimization methods based on the
operation of ant or bacterial colonies). He is also interested in
modelling all sorts of complex systems, from bees foraging to bacterial
ecologies and
aircraft evacuations.
His latest book is
Genesis Machines: The Coming Revolution in
Biocomputing and Synthetic Biology.
He authored the book
Theoretical and Experimental DNA Computation, edited the book
Cellular Computing, and coauthored the papers
"Going
Back to Our Roots": Second Generation Biocomputing and
Bacterial Self-Organisation and Computation
in
International
Journal of Unconventional Computing,
Toward Feasible and Efficient DNA Computation in
Complexity,
and
An Ant-Based Algorithm for Annular Sorting.
Read his full list
of publications!
Martyn is Associate Editor of
Advances in Natural Computation Series,
Deputy Director of
European Molecular Computing
Consortium, and
Member of
European Complex Systems Society.
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