File talk:Neural Network Ideas.docx

What I have currently been able to gather from talking about this project and seeing the power point put together by Dr. Eckdahl, we are trying to use aptamer methods with a networking model to make colonies of bacteria that are able to adapt to some environment that we expose them to. That could be antibiotics or others.. The current model I'm looking as has five nodes each with a corresponding aptamer that may or may not be used to effect expression. There could be many variations of expression using the model. What I think sounds interesting is to have some combination of expression that produces a different or new phenotype. Perhaps this could be an analogy for how a new connection might arise in the brain between two areas not previously associated.