• DocumentCode
    3255167
  • Title

    Energy diffusion model of bR for voxel identification

  • Author

    Neto, Didimo Garcia ; Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, Hoda S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Syst. Eng., Oakland Univ., Rochester, MI
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    7-10 Aug. 2005
  • Firstpage
    1294
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a potential biological structure for computer volumetric memory is investigated. Bacteriorhodopsin is a protein found in the purple membrane of the bacteria Halobacterium salinarum. This protein has light absorption properties that generate different stable states allowing the use of multilevel logic as well as binary logic. CHARMmtrade has been used to simulate the energy response of Bacteriorhodopsin at room temperature 300K for the bR ground state and the other states. The K state takes place after blue light (lambda= 635nm) absorption on the bR state. The energy difference is found to be an increase of 1086.92 kcal/mol which is responsible for triggering the photocycle that also includes the states K, L, M, N, and O. An energy surplus is found between O and bR state that may be spread to surrounding molecules. However, conformational interference does not produce photons necessary for the isomerization reaction. Further quantum molecular (QM) analysis should provide an extended model for this macromolecular energy study
  • Keywords
    biocomputing; isomerisation; light absorption; logic gates; microorganisms; molecular electronic states; multivalued logic; proteins; 300 K; 635 nm; Bacteriorhodopsin protein; CHARMm; Halobacterium salinarum; bR ground state; binary logic; biological structure; computer volumetric memory; conformational interference; energy diffusion model; energy response; isomerization reaction; light absorption properties; macromolecular energy; multilevel logic; quantum molecular analysis; voxel identification; Absorption; Biological system modeling; Biology computing; Biomembranes; Computational modeling; Land surface temperature; Logic; Microorganisms; Proteins; Stationary state;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2005. 48th Midwest Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Covington, KY
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9197-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSCAS.2005.1594346
  • Filename
    1594346