Cellular automata model of an artificial biological cell in the form of a self-replicating structure

Abstract

Two cellular automata models of an artificial biological cell, which can be elements of computing devices that mimic the properties of living organisms (growth, self-reproduction, and self-repair), are presented. The models are based on the parallel substitution algorithm, which is a spatial model for representing fine-grained parallel algorithms and architectures. An artificial biological cell is constructed from a genome applied to the input tape of the cellular automata structure. The result is a model of an artificial biological cell, which contains a phenotype as a set of fixed data and a genotype as a set of mobile data.