Nature Communications (May 2021)

Synthetic neural-like computing in microbial consortia for pattern recognition

  • Ximing Li,
  • Luna Rizik,
  • Valeriia Kravchik,
  • Maria Khoury,
  • Netanel Korin,
  • Ramez Daniel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23336-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Complex biological systems have individual cells acting collectively to solve complex tasks. Here the authors implement neural network-like computing in a bacterial consortia to recognise patterns.