Check Sum Computing in Doubly Frustrated Microtubule Clusters

Volume 12 No 3 (2014)

Mariusz Pietruszka and Marcin Lipowczan

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2014.12.3.760

Abstract

The hitherto unexplained presence of 12 or 13 tubulin dimmers forming parallel protofilament subunits in microtubules (MTs) is supposed to ensure sum checking in the system of two MTs, each one being a potential computing ‘core’. The recently proposed, frustration – originated, double well potential is mapped, exclusively for modelling reasons, onto the Ising – type Hamiltonian acting in the rings with an intra-site nearest neighbours interaction.

Keywords

computation, Ising model, microtubule, durable memory, flash memory, neuron

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