Molecular Sense Ltd.

01/06/2022

As Good as It Gets.
Biocomputation gains Momentum and Energy Supremacy!

Under Bio4Comp Project funded by EC Horizon2020, the Consortium shows the feasibility of Biocomputation in solving NP-complete problems.
Three articles recently published in the prestigious New Jurnal of Physics (Aug-Dec2021), for your information please follow the links below. Proud to say that Molecular Sense' team member, Dr Falco van Delft, coauthored in all these publications.

1. Design and fabrication of networks for bacterial computing - https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac1d38
2. Physical requirements for scaling up network-based biocomputation - https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac2a5d
3. As good as it gets: a scaling comparison of DNA computing, network biocomputing, and electronic computing approaches to an NP-complete problem - https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac3883

Project's site at www.bio4comp.org



https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/ac3883

29/12/2021

01/04/2021

* * * * * 5000 Euro * * * * *
* * * Bio 4 Comp Award * * *
ALTERNATIVE USES FOR COMPUTING DEVICES
USING NANOSCALE BIOMOLECULES
Idea Competition: Alternative uses for biocomputation devices
in diagnostics or biotechnology
Participate in this idea competition for a chance to win the Bio4Comp Award of 5000 Euro.
Beside the realization of high-performance biocomputers, the integration of biotechnology and combinatorial logic could be upgraded to customized lab-on-a-chip devices or open up new application fields for biological data storage or combinatorial biotechnology. This cross-disciplinary approach between biology, nanotechnology and computer science could enable ground-breaking innovations in the bio economy.
Here, we invite proposals that describe possible applications of molecular motor driven, network-based devices in diagnostics or other application scenarios within biotechnology.
For more information and call text:
https://bio4comp.org/award/

12/02/2021

Better prepared for the future. New Covid treatment research based in Oxford gives hopes for an effective, affordable treatment for Covid, or other respiratory viral attacks.
The scientific publication in the first comment below.
“These pandemics are now coming every five years or so, and this treatment should work for the next one, because hyper-inflammation is not particular to
COVID, it happens with all respiratory infections.”

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/over-the-counter-inhalers-suppress-severe-covid-symptoms-trial-finds-20210210-p5716m.html

The trial was so successful the researchers ended it early so they could get the results out sooner.

01/05/2020

5000 EURO PRIZE

** Best idea to visualize algorithms for network-based biocomputation **

Deadline for submission: 15th August 2020.

Network-based biocomputation uses orders of magnitude less energy than conventional computers, thus contributing to sustainable chip technology. Bio4Comp Project is now looking for ideas that conceptually or technically advance the field of parallel computing with bio-agents.

Challenge

1) new algorithmic problems that can be realized with network-based biocomputation including new NP complete problems or other difficult problems that have the potential to be efficiently solved (efficiency in time or energy) using network-based biocomputation and the suggested designs of the networks; or

2) visualization methods and code that can help study the behavior of network-based biocomputation designs or demonstrate to a non-expert audience the ideas behind network-based biocomputation.

The winner will receive a 5 000 Euro prize by bank transfer from Lund University (Note: tax will be deducted from the prize according to Swedish Law).

https://bio4comp.org/award/index.html

The second open-innovation Bio4Comp Award is for novel ideas that conceptually or technically advance the field of parallel computing with biological agents in a substantial manner. The deadline has been prolonged until 15th of August 2020. The second challenge is about Design and Visualization of N...

24/04/2020

Covid19 second wave. More on Dan Nicolau Jr's predictive mathematical model at
https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=161951

COVID-19 has infected millions and killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, but a new predictor model devised at QUT offers glimmers of hope, suggesting the worst has passed and indicating well under 1000 deaths for Australia.

01/04/2020

Scientific paper "Nicolau and Hasson, 2020" under review at The Lancet medical journal.
This is an open access to Dr Dan Nicolau Jr's study on Covid19 global situation, working with PhD student Alex Hasson, at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Please feel free to share through your networks.
Currently Dr Dan Nicolau Jr, has joined NHS UK medical staff in London, United Kingdom.
We wish him the best of luck and we trust that both his work on bioengineering/biocomputing research and his medical dedication, will make a difference in stopping the pandemic spread.


https://www.covidwave.org/

ratio of known COVID-19 cases to recovered patients. This ratio tends to close to 1.0 over time and therefore gives an indication of when the “wave” has passed. We suggest that when a country enters the highlighted green zone, things will begin to improve. Note that most countries follow the sam...

18/12/2019

Update: extended submission term.
Submit your Abstract! 📖🖍⏳ until 20 January 2020, no more than 1500 characters, to the Biocomputation symposium at E-MRS 2020, May 25-29, Strasbourg, France.
⚠️Please Share on your Network 📢🌐
https://www.european-mrs.com/biocomputation-materials-algorithms-devices-and-fabrication-emrs
The symposium will broadly cover alternative computation technologies and their application, as well as the related development of algorithms, new materials and fabrication technologies. It will also include a half-day workshop, kicking off work on a biocomputation roadmap.

Symposium scope
- Alternate parallel computing approaches including biocomputing, molecular computing and hybrid solutions
- Encoding and readout of large amounts of information into molecular and biological systems
- Materials, molecular design, synthesis, and analysis
- Single-molecule sensing and detection
- Implementation of efficient algorithms and design of networks
- Reducing error rates and formal verification
- Fabrication and scale-up of computing devices including microfluidic approaches
Abstract deadline 20 January 2020
https://www.european-mrs.com/biocomputation-materials-algorithms-devices-and-fabrication-emrs

There is wide agreement that Moore’s law regarding exponential growth of the number of components in integrated circuits is finally coming to an end. Beyond 2020, the expectation is that the further development of computing devices will be driven less by miniaturization of conventional technology ...

14/02/2019

Valentine's Day pour les connaisseurs👌😎
Love chocolate 💞 and a project review,
H2020 research that would do!
Molecular Sense is in Bio4Comp!
Consortium colleagues,
How this could be wrong?!
All parties are ready for amendments and hugs
Everything will go smoothly,
Please, Chocolates and Shiraz 😊

02/02/2019

Oldie but Goldie
The Nicolaus, Dan Sr and Dan Jr on Biocomputation, our ever hot subject! They gave this talk in Dec 2016, at Tti Technologies · Tti/vanguard Conference in San Fancisco.
The research continues under Bio4Comp Project, funded by the European Commission (Grant No 732482).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEK9siJHhgc

Dissemination of the results of ABACUS Project, funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demons...

02/02/2019

Hello, fans of Biocomputation!
Join Bio4Comp Comunity at www.bio4comp.org
The Community originates in the work of researchers within Bio4Comp Project, funded under H2020 by the European Commission (Grant No 732482).
Follow Molecular Sense www.molecularsense.com and stay tuned for amazing news!

22/01/2019

All researchers, senior or young, coordinators or partners, project officers or contractors, working in academia, public bodies or private companies, we all shall know and perform under these precious values.
= = = = = RESEARCH INTEGRITY = = = = =
https://www.allea.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ALLEA-European-Code-of-Conduct-for-Research-Integrity-2017.pdf
Read it and make this Code the compass on your professional field!
H2020 had integrated into the Model Grant Agreement that the beneficiaries must respect the highest standards of research integrity — as set out, for instance,
in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
https://www.allea.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ALLEA-European-Code-of-Conduct-for-Research-Integrity-2017.pdf

10/01/2019

H2020 research projects value chain as we see it
The key motivator factors: a Future Safe for People and Society, Secure for the administrative/political/social entities, and Sustainable for the research community, are linking the needs, the policies and the creative abilities into a value chain that satisfies all the parts involved.
Image created during Bio4Comp Project http://bio4comp.org/

17/12/2018

2019
Make a wish that will eventually come true.

17/12/2018

Yes, we do! :-)

:)

17/12/2018

5,000 EURO awaiting for a winning scientist! click here:
http://bio4comp.org/award.html
Please share widely into the scientific and academic world!

Dear scientists, friends of scientists, and friends of sciences! Please spread quickly around this call for application for a PRIZE of 5,000 EURO offered by the European Bio4Comp Project. We Sense Ltd. are a partner in this EC funded Project and we would love to hear about your your amazing ideas in biocomputation!
http://bio4comp.org/award.html
Dear friend, share widely even you are not a scientist, but you trust the power of science! and the power of social media :)
http://bio4comp.org/award.html

17/12/2018

Earlier this year, Dr. Dan Nicolau Jr won a prestigious Australian award, the ARC Future Fellowships 2018, extending his work with the Queensland University of Technology QUT in Brisbane, which is an Associate Member of Bio4Comp (http://bio4comp.org/award.html) EU funded Research Project, under the H2020 Workframe. The award, total of AU$978,125, supports the technological development with the potential to disrupt computation by providing a way to solve combinatorial mathematical problems in an efficient manner; namely giving them the ‘human’ ability to multi-task.

The ARC Future Fellowships scheme encourages research in areas of Australian national priority, with preference given to researchers who can demonstrate a capacity to build collaboration across industry, with other research institutions and with other disciplines.

QUT is part of a national collaborative group of five major Australian universities that form the ATN (Australian Technology Network of Universities). The current collaboration between QUT and Bio4Comp Consortium, and its potential extension through Dr. Dan Nicolau Jr's work, is part of a large international Community Research Network on the field of Biocomputation, initiated by the European Project
http://bio4comp.org/award.html