The breath of Artificial Life’s interdisciplinary spectrum is well reflected. The scope of Artificial Life encompasses evolution, multi-agent systems, autonomous systems, robotics, neuro-informatics, cognition, and philosophy and epistemology. The session on Genetics, Regulation and Morphogenesis deserves special mention because it documents the growth of interdisciplinary links between Artificial Life and the relatively young fields of bio-informatics and system biology. New interdisciplinary interactions with Artificial Life have repeatedly lead to significant impacts in applications oriented research, e.g. in software technology, telecommunications and robotics. One may thus expect that the contact between Artificial Life, bio-informatics and systems biology may result in advances in biotechnology.
