Simulating Self-Reproduction of Cells in a Two-Dimensional Cellular Automaton

Takeshi Ishida

Dept. of Product Engineering and Environmental Management, Nippon Institute of Technology, 4-1 Gakuendai, Miyasiro, Minami-Saitama, Saitama 345-8501, Japan

Received:

February 19, 2010

Accepted:

June 8, 2010

Published:

October 20, 2010

Keywords:

self-reproduction, cellular automaton, cell division

Abstract

Clarifying generalized self-reproduction is basic to applications in fields such as molecular machine production in nanotechnology and synthetic biology. The two-dimensional cellular automaton model we developed simulated cellular self-reproduction using a few state transition rules.

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T. Ishida, “Simulating Self-Reproduction of Cells in a Two-Dimensional Cellular Automaton,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.22 No.5, pp. 669-676, 2010.

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