Cellular compartmentalization is an effective way to build gene circuits capable of complex logic operations, in which binary inputs are converted into binary outputs according to user-defined rules. See Letters p.207 & p.212
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Li, B., You, L. Division of logic labour. Nature 469, 171–172 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469171a
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