The principle of biocomputer is that information travels in the form of waves, and when the waves travel along the chain of protein molecules, they cause changes in the structural order of the single and double bonds in the chain of protein molecules, which starts the computation.
The main raw material is protein molecules produced by bioengineering technology and used as biochips. Biochips are much smaller than the electronic components on a silicon chip, and the biochip itself has a naturally unique, three-dimensionalized structure that is five orders of magnitude denser than a planar-type silicon integrated circuit.
Bio-computers can think and reason as the human brain does, recognize text, graphics, and understand human language, and thus can be the best partner in people's lives, serving as a variety of jobs, such as can be applied to communications equipment, satellite navigation, and industrial control fields, to play its important role.
The physicists of the Department of Biological Computers of the United States Bell Laboratories are developing artificial ears and artificial retina made up of chips, and the success of this technology is expected to rehabilitate deaf and blind people.
It will take some time before a bio-computer can be used in a mature way, but scientists have already developed a bio-chip, the main component of a bio-computer. Minnesota State University in the United States has developed the world's first "molecular circuits" by the "molecular wires" composed of microscopic circuits only one-thousandth of the current computer circuits.
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Scientists through the biological organization of the body research, found that the organization of the body is composed of countless cells, cells by water, salt, proteins and nucleic acids and other organic matter, and some of the organic matter in the protein molecules, like a switch, with the "on" and "off".
Therefore, human beings can use genetic engineering technology to imitate this protein molecule, which is used as a component to make a computer. Scientists call such computers biocomputers.
Biocomputers are mainly computers built with bioelectronic components. It utilizes proteins to have switching properties, and uses protein molecules as components to make biochips.
The performance is determined by the switching speed of the current between components and components. A computer chip made of proteins has a storage point that is only the size of a molecule, so its storage capacity can be up to a billion times that of an ordinary computer.
An integrated circuit made of protein is only one hundred thousandth the size of a silicon integrated circuit. And it runs even faster, at only 1×10^(-11) seconds, greatly exceeding the speed of the human brain's thinking.
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