[BBF Standards] Representing parts

[Bryan Bishop]

On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Raik Gruenberg wrote:
> Absolutely. In the end you'll have a set of reactions anyway. It's
> just that your simulation program can autogenerate the complete
> reaction system from the simple rules. But the rules are the more
> general and could also be useful for other purposes -- like structure
> modeling for example. Like high-level source-code that is compiled
> for different architectures and much easier to read, change, and
> exchange than binary machine code.

Yikes! You don't want your simulation program to have to autogenerate 
this stuff. In general, this will take a long time, unless we have the 
mathematics which tells us the "closed form" method of going about it. 
For example, in some simulations you might have to literally evolve the 
genes you want, digitally, and then go implement them. But if there's a 
mathematical routine for doing those sorts of proteins already, then 
that's obviously what you should use. Pre-mapped territory in graph 
theory, basically. See my other email on compilers for amorphous 
fabrication.

- Bryan
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