The Multicellular Program

• The Object-Oriented Ontogenetic Programming Paradigm
  • How and why did the idea for the new paradigm evolve?
  • How does it work?
  • Advantages
    • Robust and fault tolerant
    • Adaptive and dynamic
    • Modular
    • Powerful interactions / communication
    • Evolvable
    • Emergent differentiation
    • Combines advantages of homogeneous and heterogeneous teams
    • For centralized and distributed problem solving
    • Close to nature
    • Open and easily extendable
  • Pitfalls
    • Slow evolution
    • Slow execution for big cell clusters
    • Difficult to analyse
• Realization of a Multicellular Program
  • Major parts of the individual
  • Major parts of the genome
  • Major parts of a gene