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The Bare Bones language is a programming language with a minimal set of operations that exhibits universal computation. We present a conceptual framework, Chemical Bare Bones, to construct Bare Bones programs by programming the state transitions of a multi-functional catalytic particle. Molecular counts represent program variables, and are altered by the action of the catalytic particle. Chemical Bare Bones programs have unique properties with respect to correctness and time complexity. The Chemical Bare Bones implementation is naturally suited to parallel computation. Chemical Bare Bones programs are constructed and stochastically modeled to undertake computations such as multiplication.
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Liekens, A.M.L., Fernando, C.T. (2007). Turing Complete Catalytic Particle Computers. In: Almeida e Costa, F., Rocha, L.M., Costa, E., Harvey, I., Coutinho, A. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4648. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_120
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