Team:USP-UNESP-Brazil/Associative Memory/Introduction

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They implemented a Hopfield associative memory with four fully connected artificial neurons that, after training in silico, remembers four single-stranded DNA patterns and recalls the most similar one when presented with an incomplete pattern.  
They implemented a Hopfield associative memory with four fully connected artificial neurons that, after training in silico, remembers four single-stranded DNA patterns and recalls the most similar one when presented with an incomplete pattern.  
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The final goal of this project is to build an associative memory network in a populational system of ''E.coli''. In our design, a population of bacteria represents a “neuron” of the network.  Each neuron communicates with the whole network by quorum sensing molecules (QSM). Once all "neurons" are connected, it defines a called Hopfield associative memory architecture. The interactions can be repressive or excitatory, which means that one neuron can inhibit another one, repressing its production of QSM, or excite it, stimulating its production of QSM. 
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The final goal of this project is to build an associative memory network in a populational system of ''E.coli''. In our design, a population of bacteria represents a “neuron” of the network.  Each neuron communicates with the whole network by quorum sensing molecules (QSM) and the interactions can be repressive or excitatory. Once all "neurons" are connected, it defines a called Hopfield associative memory architecture.  
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