Research Group on Natural Computing

Many important steps in the history of computer science are related to and inspired from “computations" taking
place in living cells and organisms. In the last decades this became a mainstream research direction – not to say
a fashion, with important and well established areas, such as evolutionary computing and neural computing, and
with exciting new areas, such as DNA and membrane (cellular) computing. Bio-inspired computing (hence in the
benefit of computer science) has a counterpart in using computers (more general, computing theory) in biology,
and this gave rise to several research directions, such as bio-informatics, system biology, computational biology,
etc.