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Chemical Sensors and Information Fusion in Physarum

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We show how the slime mould can be used as a chemical sensor and investigate how the organism combines different sensory information. We have produced a biosensor using protoplasmic tubes of Physarum which is capable of detecting various biologically active chemicals in the local environment; this progress is akin to developing a biological nose using the organism’s natural sensing ability.

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Whiting, J.G.H., De Lacy Costello, B., Adamatzky, A. (2016). Chemical Sensors and Information Fusion in Physarum. In: Adamatzky, A. (eds) Advances in Physarum Machines. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_11

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