Download or read book Biocomputing And Emergent Computation - Proceedings Of Bcec97 written by Bjorn Olsson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-08-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains papers presented at the BCEC97 conference, held in Skövde, Sweden, in September 1997. The conference brought together researchers from biology and computer science to discuss the use of computational techniques in biology, as well as the use of biological metaphors in computing. Examples of the work presented in these papers include computer simulations of embryogenesis; algorithms for protein folding prediction; problem solving using DNA computation; neural-network learning in retina implants; and optimisation algorithms inspired by natural evolution.