Bacteria across many scales are involved in a dynamic process of information exchange to coordinate activity and community structure within large and diverse populations. The molecular components bacteria use to communicate have been discovered and characterized, and recent efforts have begun to understand the potential for bacterial signal exchange to gather information from the environment and coordinate collective behaviors. Such computations made by bacteria to coordinate the action of a population of cells in response to information gathered by a multitude of inputs is a form of collective intelligence. These computations must be robust to fluctuations in both biological, chemical, and physical parameters as well as to operate with energetic efficiency. Given these constraints, what are the limits of computation by bacterial populations and what strategies have evolved to ensure bacterial communities efficiently work together? Here the current understanding of information e...

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细菌群落中的计算

许多规模的细菌都参与了一个动态的信息交换过程，以协调大量不同人群中的活动和群落结构。细菌用来交流的分子成分已经被发现和表征，最近的努力已经开始了解细菌信号交换从环境中收集信息和协调集体行为的潜力。细菌进行的这种计算是为了协调一组细胞对大量输入收集的信息的反应，这是一种集体智慧。这些计算必须对生物、化学和物理参数的波动具有鲁棒性，并以高能效运行。鉴于这些限制，细菌种群的计算限制是什么？已经进化出哪些策略来确保细菌群落有效地协同工作？这里就目前对信息电子的理解...