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Project: E. Coli Neural Network
Introduction
Neural networks (NNs) are nonlinear systems capable of distributed processing over a number of simple interconnected units. By adjusting connections between these units, NNs are capable of learning. Similar to NNs, a culture of Escherichia coli cells can be viewed as a distributed processing system with connections formed by intercellular signaling pathways. By engineering the cells to interact with each other in predetermined ways, it should be feasible to develop a bacteria based neural network.
Objectives
The goal of the proposed project is to develop a simple two-unit feedforward NN using E. coli cells. The network will consist of one input unit and one output unit. This network will be trained to either allow the input to propagate to the output, or to block propagation.
Team Members
Update 09/08/07:
BlueWaters iGEM 2007 Project Proposal (Draft): Neural Network
The above is subject to change.
Groups within the team, and current contact people
- Finance (Kirill, Conrad)
- Design (Natalie, Charles)
- four projects under feasibility evaluation
- Lab (Charles, Natalie)
- core: 4
- rotation: 12+ confirmed
- Presentation (Andy)
Each group is now in the process of getting up and running smoothly. Need to contact a contact person? Email the team (the address is on the BlueGenes website at the top of this page) and your message will get to the correct person. Please keep in mind that there may be a delay in response due to all of our contact people having full-time commitments elsewhere (and lately, everyone's been out of the country), but we'll do our best to be prompt.
Our wiki from last year: [http://parts2.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/University_of_Toronto_2006 Blue Water]. Of particular note is the lab notebook (click on Construction under Committees).
Editors of this wiki: Markup conventions can be found on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page Wikipedia editing tips].
Much more to come.
