Biocomputing is the use of biological molecules, cells or tissues to store, transform or process information. The field is broader than living-neuron computing: DNA reactions can implement molecular computation, engineered cells can perform biological logic, and neural cultures can act as adaptive physical networks.
This site concentrates on neural biocomputing because that branch is currently producing defined computing platforms, remote access and increasingly explicit learning benchmarks.
Three broad approaches
Molecular computing uses molecules such as DNA as information-bearing and reacting components. Cellular computing engineers living cells to detect inputs and implement logic or control. Neural biocomputing interfaces neuronal networks with electronics so that biological dynamics become part of a computational loop.
Why the terminology is messy
Biological computing, biocomputing, wetware computing, synthetic biological intelligence and organoid intelligence overlap. Authors and companies do not use them consistently. The useful distinction is therefore architectural: what biological substrate is present, how information enters and leaves it, what task it performs and what evidence supports the claimed behaviour.
The database is organised around those concrete fields rather than terminology alone.