Title

Artificial life and living systems: Insight into artificial life and its implications in life science research

Authors

Sarvothaman Guruprasad and Kanagaraj Sekar*

Affiliation

Bioinformatics Centre, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India

E-mail*

sekar@physics.iisc.ernet.in; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Views & Challenges

Date

received March 12, 2006; revised March 28, 2006; accepted April 16, 2006; published online April 28, 2006

Abstract

Advanced technology has made it possible to build machines and systems like robots, which are capable of making intelligent decisions. Robots capable of self-replication and perform human functions are also available. The current challenge is to design evolutionary systems with high complexity comparable to that of biological networks. This is proposed to be achieved by ALife (Artificial Life). Here, we describe the promises provided by ALife for life sciences.

Keywords

cellular automaton; synthetic biology; artificial intelligence; artificial life

Citation

Guruprasad & Sekar, Bioinformation 1(4): 139-140 (2006)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.