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Summary
At a meeting held in Hanover, Germany, from 2 to 4 March 1997, researchers from a wide range of disciplines met to discuss information processing. Several common principles seem to apply across biological fields. Two themes emerged: Biochemical pathways are used in many contexts for computation, and pulses serve to code information in a variety of systems.
