Cellular automata model for bacterial information sharing mechanism

Abstract

Although a bacterium looks like a simple structure microbe, their family is one of the oldest organisms and ubiquitous in every habitat on Earth. The main reason is the bacterial (or prokaryotes') global gene information sharing mechanism termed as bacterial gene sharing (BGS). Based on the research of BGS and Schrodinger's life entropy theory, we presents a novel artificial life system with cellular automata, BGS-CA model, to simulate the bacterial gene information sharing. Some experiments are used to verify the viability and effectiveness of this model.