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Dev tools · September 7, 2015

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artificial life whole cell project

[1] is a trailer for a project in artificial life. The goal is to create a living artificial cell, based on the chemlambda artificial chemistry. Everything in the trailer is a recording of a real computation, done with the programs from the chemlambda repository. Everything was run on a regular laptop, then screencasted and trimmed. The programs are available for playing at the chemlambda github repository [2] where you can also find more info about the research behind this project. [1] https://vimeo.com/138476341 [2]…

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[1] is a trailer for a project in artificial life. The goal is to create a living artificial cell, based on the chemlambda artificial chemistry. Everything in the trailer is a recording of a real computation, done with the programs from the chemlambda repository. Everything was run on a regular laptop, then screencasted and trimmed. The programs are available for playing at the chemlambda github repository [2] where you can also find more info about the research behind this project. [1] https://vimeo.com/138476341 [2] github.com/chorasimilarity/chemlambda-gui/blob/gh-pages/dynamic/README.md You think is too far fetched? Then compare with this real recording from Li et. al., “Extended Resolution Structured Illumination Imaging of Endocytic and Cytoskeletal Dynamics,” Science: [3] https://vimeo.com/136537187

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