Assembling the pieces.

Assembling the pieces

Assembling Ecological Pieces to Reconstruct the Conservation Puzzle of the Aegean Sea

Citation: Sini M, Katsanevakis S, Koukourouvli N, Gerovasileiou V, Dailianis T, Buhl-Mortensen L, Damalas D, Dendrinos P, Dimas X, Frantzis A, Gerakaris V, Giakoumi S, Gonzalez-Mirelis G, Hasiotis T, Issaris Y, Kavadas SG, Koutsogiannopoulos DD, Koutsoubas D, Manoutsoglou E, Markantonatou V, Mazaris AD, Poursanidis D, Papatheodorou G, Salomidi M, Topouzelis K, Trygonis V, Vassilopoulou V and Zo...

From evolving software towards models of dynamically self-assembling processing systems

Several types of micro-controllers are put into a primordial soup abstracted as a ring. The special feature of this setup is that self-replication is not possible. Microcontrollers only have access to foreign program-code not to their own. It turns out that the seeding programs vanish long before being able to proliferate when each program is automatically granted access to the neighboring code...

Shape allophiles improve entropic assembly.

We investigate a class of "shape allophiles" that fit together like puzzle pieces as a method to access and stabilize desired structures by controlling directional entropic forces. Squares are cut into rectangular halves, which are shaped in an allophilic manner with the goal of re-assembling the squares while self-assembling the square lattice. We examine the assembly characteristics of this s...

Programmed-assembly system using DNA jigsaw pieces.

A novel method for assembling multiple DNA origami structures has been developed by using designed 2D DNA origami rectangles, so-called "DNA jigsaw pieces" that have sequence-programmed connectors. Shape and sequence complementarity were introduced to the concavity and convex connectors in the DNA rectangles for selective connection with the help of nonselective pi-stacking interactions between...

Scientific Puzzle Solving: Current Techniques and Applications

An automated assembling of shredded/torn documents (2D) or broken pottery (3D) will support philologists, archaeologists and forensic experts. Especially if the amount of fragments is large (up to 1000), the compilation will not be feasible for a human puzzle solver due to cost and time. Approaches to solve the task of fragmented objects or puzzles can be divided into shape based matching techn...