Gene Regulation Network Use for Information Processing

From the unicellular to the more complex pluricellular organism needs to process the signals from its environment to survive. The computation science has already observed, that fact could be demonstrated remembering the artificial neural networks (ANN). This computation tool is based on the nervous system of the animals, but not only the nervous cells process information in an organism. Every cell has to process the development and functioning plan encoded at its DNA and every one of these cells executes this program in parallel with the others. Another interesting characteristic of natural cells is that they form systems that are tolerant to partial failures: small errors do not induce a global collapse of the system. The present work proposes a model that is based on DNA information processing, but adapting it to general information processing. This model can be based on a set of techniques called Artificial Embryogeny (Stanley K. & Miikkulainen R. 2003) which adapts characteristics from the biological cells to solve different problems.