Objective The integrated project PACE will explore the utilization of the simplest technically feasible elementary living units (artificial cells much simpler than current cells) to build evolvable complex information systems. We will create, analyse and investigate the applications of such systems that process information by self-organization starting at molecular scales. We will also determine whether life-like properties are necessary for computational systems to be fully robust and adaptive and investigate the tension between evolvable living autonomy and programmable utilization.We will explore the collective properties of artificial cells and demonstrate that they are the right material for building nanoscale robot ecologies. The particular molecular systems we will consider will have genetically controlled catalytic reactions, self-assembly of complex supra-molecular structures, and energy transduction. We will investigate the stepwise evolution of such complex systems by machine complementation and combinatorial search using a programmable microfluidic interface.We will provide theoretical and simulation frameworks for understanding emergent computational properties of such systems, and experimental frameworks for programming them by evolutionary exploration of chemical reactions. We will integrate and disseminate multidisciplinary European activities to give it a decisive international competitive advantage in this FET. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologynatural scienceschemical sciences Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2002-2.3.4.2 - FET pro-actives Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme IP - Integrated Project Coordinator RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM EU contribution No data Address UNIVERSITAETSSTRASSE 150 44780 BOCHUM Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (12) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Sweden EU contribution No data Address 412 96 GOETEBORG See on map Total cost No data COMUNE DI VENEZIA Italy EU contribution No data Address SAN POLO 1098, RIVA DEL VIN 30110 VENICE See on map Total cost No data DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY Ireland EU contribution No data Address DUBLIN 9 See on map Total cost No data KOEBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution No data Address NOERREGADE 10 1017 COPENHAGEN See on map Total cost No data PROTOLIFE S.R.L. Italy EU contribution No data Address VIA RIZZARDI 3 30100 VENEZIA See on map Total cost No data PROTOSTREAM GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address OTTO-HAHN-STRASSE 15 44227 DORTMUND See on map Total cost No data REED INSTITUTE DBA REED COLLEGE United States EU contribution No data Address 3203 SE WOODSTOCK BLVD. PORTLAND, OREGON 97202 See on map Total cost No data SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution No data Address CAMPUSVEJ 55 5230 ODENSE M See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI DI VENEZIA Italy EU contribution No data Address DORSODURO 3246 30123 VENEZIA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH Switzerland EU contribution No data Address RAEMISTRASSE 71 8006 ZUERICH See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA Spain EU contribution No data Address PLACA DE LA MERCE 10-12 08002 BARCELONA See on map Total cost No data VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETO TEORINES FIZIKOS IR ASTRONOMIJOS INSTITUTO Lithuania EU contribution No data Address A. GOSTAUTO 12, 2600 VILNIUS See on map Total cost No data