Although significant technical and ethical barriers impede our progress towards actualising useful biocomputers, the use of live biological substrates in the fabrication of novel computing devices is steadily transcending the barriers between science fiction and reality. Orchestrated Biocomputation documents studies on the design, fabrication and testing of prototype unconventional computing devices which utilise a live organism - the plasmodium of slime mould Physarum polycephalum - as their key constituent element. By harnessing the apparently "intelligent" behaviours these single-celled...