For compilation and discussion of our thoughts on DB biochemistry. This includes the chemicals involved in metabolism, the make-up of the bots themselves and other substances (including the chemicals that the envirogrid will have to deal with)
We currently have the metabolism system, that models chemicals as binary strings
eg. 01010001
With 1 signifying the presence of a chemical group and 0 signifying the lack of a chemical group
Can we do better?
How are we going to model the properties of these chemicals?
Maybe we should move towards having everything in DB dependant on a universal biochemistry ie. bot bodies, shots etc.
I also think we should give DNA a physical representation in the DBverse and allow it's movement around the sim, this could allow HGT, viruses etc.
If we have everything in DB coming from a universal biochemistry we may also solve the virus problem - there may be some chemicals that viruses can use to facilitate access to the cell.
Maybe we should have seperate 'behavioral', 'structural' (ie. for cell specialisation) and 'metabolic' DNA?