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Half-adder or Full-adder

An implementation of a half-adder or full-adder: 1-bit adder with carry

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_adder half/full adder in wikipedia]

Idea: Pattern recognition

→ Illustration of the concepts:

Main Goal:

  • Write something with a chemical on a petri plate (like ETH for example)
  • Let Bacteria grow uniformly on the plate
  • Expose the plate to a picture (black and white) of the same pattern
  • Result:
    • Bacteria gets green when pattern on the plate and picture match (light and chemical)
    • Bacteria does not express fluorescent protein when pattern on the plate and picture match (no light and no chemical)
    • Bacteria gets red when pattern on the plate and picture do not match

From the ingenieur point of view

  • Half Adder
  • = opportunity to build an AND and an XOR Gate

From the biologist point of view

  • AND Gate: presence of chemical induces the production of an inactive protein, which is activated by a second protein (produced when light is present): the first protein is then activating GFP production
  • XOR Gate: I think Marko had a good idea about that (I didn't really got it)
  • a light sensible promoter (there are some, see [http://partsregistry.org/Featured_Parts:Light_Sensor here])
  • a chemical sensible promoter (chemical to be defined)
  • we would need to give a kind of first signal to the system (to don't have light reactions before a certain moment, otherwise we have to work in a dark room...), an activation signal after the bacterias have grown on the plate

Modeling

Matlab scripts for ODE simulation

unzip the file, each zip file contains 2 files: sim_xxx.m and ode_xxx.m.

ode_xxx.m : contains the differential equations, i.e. the model
sim_xxx.m : sets the parameters, calls the simulator and plots the result (this is the one to run, but the other is also needed).
  • [http://csb.inf.ethz.ch/igem-2006/matlab_sim_and1.zip matlab_sim_and1.zip] (<0.1M) →simulation results
  • [http://csb.inf.ethz.ch/igem-2006/matlab_sim_and2.zip matlab_sim_and2.zip] (<0.1M) →simulation results
  • [http://csb.inf.ethz.ch/igem-2006/matlab_sim_and3.zip matlab_sim_and3.zip] (<0.1M) →simulation results
  • [http://csb.inf.ethz.ch/igem-2006/matlab_sim_and4.zip matlab_sim_and4.zip] (<0.1M) →simulation results

As a result of the meeting on August 17, we will from now on concentrate on the AND versions 2 and 3.

  • [http://csb.inf.ethz.ch/igem-2006/matlab_sim_xor1.zip matlab_sim_xor1.zip] (<0.1M) →simulation results
  • [http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~brockho/igem2006/matlab_sim_xor2.zip matlab_sim_xor2.zip] (<0.1M) →simulation results
  • [http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~brockho/igem2006/matlab_sim_xor3.zip matlab_sim_xor3.zip] (<0.1M) →simulation results


Old Stuff

Old models & stuff

Parts

We have already reserved parts for the adder and the gates in the registry the description of which are still tentative:

  • Half adder: [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J34000 BBa_J34000]
  • AND gate: [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J34100 BBa_J34100]
  • XOR gate: [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J34200 BBa_J34200]

Pro's & Con's

Pro's:

  • meaningful from engineering point
  • valuable parts for synthetic biology
  • stepwise proceeding applicable (→ intermediate and partial results!)
  • experiments visually attractive
  • probably simple enough

Con's:

  • cheap copy of “bio-film” project ([http://partsregistry.org/cgi/htdocs/SBC04/index.cgi iGEM 2004])
  • sensational experiments, have little in common with half adder
  • maybe that a big vision is lacking
  • general/practical benefit? (counter-argument: is this required?)
  • too simple?
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