Enzyme Computation Computing the way proteins do

It is presented enzyme computation, a computational paradigm based on the molecular activity inside the biological cells, particularly in the capacity of proteins to represent information, of enzymes to transform that information, and of genes to produce both elements according to the dynamic requirements of a given system. The paradigm explodes the rich computational possibilities offered by metabolic pathways and genetic regulatory networks and translates those possibilities into a distributed computational space made up of active agents which communicate through the mechanism of message passing. Enzyme computation has been tested in diverse problems, such as image processing, species classification, symbolic regression, and constraints satisfaction. Also, given its distributed nature, an implementation in dynamical reconfigurable hardware has been possible.