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

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The training of the network is previously defined ''in silico'' and it is inserted in the bacteria through a genetic construction.
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Each population of bacteria ("neuron") needs his own QSM and because of that the number of "neurons" is limitated to the number of QSMs.
Despite the solution we found to the specificity of the communication, another problem appears when we try to genetically build the bacterial populations: there are not enough quorum sensing systems to create 9 bacterial populations with different ones. In the Registry of Parts there are 4 quorum sensing systems well characterized, and there is a strong activation crosstalk between two of them (Las and Rhl), this fact prevent us from using them, therefore, we end up with 3 systems of quorum sensing that can be used.
Despite the solution we found to the specificity of the communication, another problem appears when we try to genetically build the bacterial populations: there are not enough quorum sensing systems to create 9 bacterial populations with different ones. In the Registry of Parts there are 4 quorum sensing systems well characterized, and there is a strong activation crosstalk between two of them (Las and Rhl), this fact prevent us from using them, therefore, we end up with 3 systems of quorum sensing that can be used.

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