Future work

Next step, we won't be satisfied with achieving coupling between bacterium's oscillators and computers. We will focus on the coupling between a metabolic system such as Krebs Cycle (Fig.1) and computer. We are interested in cell differentiation (Fig.2). If we could achieve the coupling between cell differentiation and computer, organisms will have more diversities. And the cell differentiation will get more amazing

We chose to couple oscillators because the synchronization is easy to observe. Not only oscillators but also many states can be coupled. In fact, there is the real-time communication and codetermining next behavior in the couple state. Life complexly couple with itself and the environment, that’s why we need to decouple parts in synthetic biology. In our project, we not only plan to achieve to couple between the E.coli and one computer but also dream to achieve couple with everything. We will try to couple different kinds of organisms with different kinds of computers. And we also plan to test the cascade of couples. At last, it may combine the organisms, inorganic environment and virtual world then achieves all in one.