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This book is a Festschrift that grew out of a workshop celebrating the 65th birthday of Grzegorz Rozenberg. Among many other accomplishments, Rozenberg coined the phrase “Natural Computing,” co-founded the journal of the same name, and also co-founded Theoretical Computer Science C (Theory of Natural Computing), and the Springer book series Natural Computing, of which this volume is a part. The editors describe their reasons for choosing the title “Algorithmic Bioprocesses”: “the workshop did not cover the whole spectrum of natural computing research, but rather it was mostly focused on the interactions between computer science on the one hand and biology, chemistry, and DNA-oriented nanoscience on the other.” Algorithmic Bioprocesses contains 36 chapters, contributed by scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds. The first chapter, by Arto Salomaa, is a prose portrait of Rozenberg, both as a scientist and as a man. The remaining chapters are loosely grouped by biological subject area. Rather than attempt to summarize these chapters in order, I will assume that the reader of this review is a theoretical computer scientist with an interest in viewing biological processes through an algorithmic lens. I will describe some of the contributions, categorized by TCS area they seem most related to. Hopefully, this approach will help the reader identify research areas of potential interest.
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