R. M. Mayne

R. M. Mayne

Novelist. Scientist. Inept watchmaker.

Publications

Last updated April 2026

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Peer Reviewed Articles, Primary/Joint Primary Author

  1. Mayne R, Smith D, Brown K, Chen Y, Firth A, Katayama K, et al. Comprehensive hallmark gene sequence, genomic and structural analysis of Picornavirales viruses clarifies new and existing taxa. Virus Evolution. 2026;12(veag023)
  2. Mayne R, Simmonds P, Smith B, Adriaenssens E, Lefkowitz E, Oksanen H, et al. Virus Taxonomy Proposal Summaries: A Searchable and Citeable Resource to Disseminate Virus Taxonomy Advances. Journal of General Virology. 2025;106(7)
  3. Mayne R, Aiewsakun P, Turner D, Adriaenssens E, Simmonds P. GRAViTy-V2: a grounded viral taxonomy application. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2024 9;6
  4. Mayne R, Secret S, Geoghegan C, Trebes A, Kean K, Reid K, et al. Castanet: A pipeline for rapid analysis of targeted multi-pathogen genomic data. Bioinformatics. 2024 10;
  5. Mayne R, Roberts N, Philips N, Weerasekera R, Adamatzky A. Propagation of electrical signals by fungi. Biosystems. 2023;p. 104933
  6. Mayne R, Green H. Virtual Reality for Teaching and Learning in Crime Scene Investigation. Science & Justice. 2020;60(5):466–472
  7. Mayne R, Draper TC, Phillips N, Whiting JGH, Weerasekera R, Fullarton C, et al. Neuromorphic Liquid Marbles with Aqueous Carbon Nanotube Cores. Langmuir. 2019;35(40):13182–13188
  8. Mayne R, Phillips N, Adamatzky A. Towards experimental P-systems using multivesicular liposomes. Journal of Membrane Computing. 2019;1(2):20–28
  9. Mayne R, Morgan J, Whiting J, Phillips N, Adamatzky A. On measuring nanoparticle toxicity and clearance with Paramecium caudatum. Nature Scientific Reports. 2019;9(1):8957
  10. Mayne R, Whiting J, Andrew A. Toxicity and applications of internalised magnetite nanoparticles within live Paramecium caudatum cells. BioNanoScience. 2017;
  11. Mayne R, Whiting JGH, Wheway G, Melhuish C, Adamatzky A. Particle Sorting by Paramecium Cilia Arrays. Biosystems. 2017;156-157:46–52
  12. Mayne R, Jones J, Gale E, Adamatzky A. On coupled oscillator dynamics and incident behaviour patterns in slime mould Physarum polycephalum: emergence of wave packets, global streaming clock frequencies and anticipation of periodic stimuli. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Dis- tributed Systems. 2016;32(1):85—118
  13. Mayne R, Adamatkzy A. Cellular automata modelling of slime mould actin network signalling. Natural Computing. 2016;
  14. Mayne R, Tsompanas MA, Sirakoulis GC, Adamatzky A. Towards a slime Mould-FPGA interface. Biomedical Engineering Letters. 2015;5(1):51–57
  15. Mayne R, Adamatzky A, Jones J. On the role of the plasmodial cytoskeleton in facilitating intel- ligent behaviour in slime mould Physarum polycephalum. Communicative and Integrative Biology. 2015;8(4):e1059007
  16. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. On the Computing Potential of Intracellular Vesicles. Plos One. 2015;10(10):e0139617
  17. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Towards Hybrid Nanostructure-Slime Mould Devices. Nano LIFE. 2015;5(1):140007

  18. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Slime mould foraging behaviour as optically coupled logical operations. International Journal of General Systems. 2015;44(3):305–313 1

  19. Mayne R, Patton D, Costello BDL, Adamatzky A, Patton RC. On the Internalisation, Intraplasmodial Carriage and Excretion of Metallic Nanoparticles in the Slime Mould, Physarum Polycephalum. Inter- national Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation. 2011;3(3):1–14 Books (Primary Author / Editor)

Books

  1. Mayne R, den Toonder J, editors. Atlas of Cilia Bioengineering and Biocomputation. River Publishers; 2018
  2. Mayne R. Orchestrated Biocomputation: Unravelling the Mystery of Slime Mould ”Intelligence”. Bristol, UK: Luniver Press; 2016

Book Chapters, Primary Author

  1. Mayne R. Collapsing the Wave Function on Postquantum Unconventional Computing. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy. World Scientific; 2021. p. 459–469
  2. Mayne R. Programming Ciliary Object Manipulation. In: Mayne R, den Toonder J, editors. Atlas of Cilia Bioengineering and Biocomputing. Delft, NL: River Publishers; 2018. p. 37–50
  3. Mayne R, Wheway G. Biological preliminaries for cilia study. In: Mayne R, den Toonder J, editors. Atlas of Cilia Bioengineering and Biocomputing. Delf: River Publishers; 2018. p. 3–14
  4. Mayne R. When the path is never shortest: a reality check on shortest path biocomputation. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Unconventional computation of shortest paths. Springer; 2018.
  5. Mayne R, Tsompanas MA, Sirakoulis G, Adamatzky A. Towards a Slime Mould-FPGA Interface. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Advances in Physarum Machines; 2016. p. 299–309
  6. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Slime Mould Nanotechnology. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Advances in Physarum Machines. Springer; 2016. p. 133–152
  7. Mayne R. Biology of the Physarum polycephalum plasmodium: preliminaries for unconventional com- puting. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Advances in Physarum Machines. vol. 21. Springer; 2016. p. 3–22
  8. Mayne R. Slime mould biotechnology. In: Adamatzky AI, editor. Atlas of Physarum Computing. World Scientific; 2015. p. 47–59

Peer Reviewed Articles, Non-Primary Author

  1. M ̈onttinen H, Ravantti J, Mayne R, Simmonds P, Poranen M. Revealing deep evolutionary relationships between RNA viruses using predicted structural models of viral RNA polymerases. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2025;43(msag088)
  2. Secret S, Mayne R, Reid K, Hook L, Lloyd-Evans P, Maddox V, et al. Bioinformatic identification of lentivirus transfer plasmid contamination causing false-positive HIV NAT results in a high-throughput molecular screening laboratory. Microbiology Spectrum. 2026 Feb;p. e02500–25
  3. Simmonds P, Adriaenssens E, Lefkowitz E, Oksanen H, Zerbini F, Alfenas-Zerbini P, et al. Changes to virus taxonomy, the international code of virus classification and nomenclature, and the ICTV statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2025). Archives of Virology. 2025;171(1)
  4. Simmonds P, Butkovic A, Grove J, Mayne R, Mifsud J, Beer M, et al. Taxonomic expansion and reorganization ofFlaviviridae. Nature Microbiology. 2025;
  5. Zerbini FM, Crane A, Kuhn JH, Simmonds P, Lefkowitz EJ, et al. Summary of taxonomy changes rat- ified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) – General taxonomy proposals,
  6. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106
  7. Krupovic M, Baquero DP, Bignon EA, Bize A, Borrel G, Cai M, et al. Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106
  8. Rubino L, Abrahamian P, An W, Aranda MA, Ascencio-Iba ̃nez JT, Bejerman N, et al. Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses from the Plant Viruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106
  9. Turner D, Adriaenssens EM, Amann RI, Bardy P, Bartlau N, Barylski J, et al. Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106
  10. Sabanadzovic S, Abergel C, Ayll ́on MA, Botella L, Canuti M, Chiba Y, et al. Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Fungal and Protist Viruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106
  11. Hughes HR, Ballinger MJ, Bao Y, Bejerman N, Blasdell KR, Briese T, et al. Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Animal dsRNA and ssRNA() Viruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106
  12. Varsani A, Abd-Alla AMM, Arnberg N, Bateman KS, Benk ̋o M, B ́ezier A, et al. Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Animal DNA Viruses and Retroviruses Subcommittee, 2025. Journal of General Virology. 2025 7;106
  13. Nurmi V, Mayne R, Knight C, Almonacid-Mendoza HL, Secret S, Estcourt L, et al. Individual patient and donor seroprofiles in convalescent plasma treatment of COVID-19 in REMAP-CAP clinical trial. Journal of Infection. 2025;p. 106412
  14. McClure CP, Kean K, Reid K, Mayne R, Fu MX, Rajendra P, et al. Reconstruction of the historic time course of blood-borne virus contamination of clotting factor concentrates, 1974–1992. Journal of Medical Virology. 2024 7;96
  15. Philips N, Draper T, Mayne R, Reynolds D, Adamatzky A. Marimo Actuated Rover Systems. Journal of Biological Engineering. 2022;16(3)
  16. Philips N, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Chlorella sensors in liquid marbles and droplets. Sensing and bio-sensing research. 2022;36:100491
  17. Adamatzky A, Ayres P, Beasley A, Chiolerio A, Deshibi M, Gandia A, et al. Fungal Electronics. Biosystems. 2022;212:104588
  18. Nomura Si, Hayase G, Toyota T, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Spontaneous and Driven Growth of Multi- cellular Lipid Compartments to Millimeter Size from Porous Polymer Structures. ChemSystemsChem. 2022;4(5):e202200006
  19. Deshibi M, Chiolerio A, Nikolaidou A, Mayne R, Gandia A, Ashtari-Majlan M, et al. Stimulating Fungi Pleurotus ostreatus with Hydrocortisone. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. 2021;7(8):3718– 3726
  20. Adamatzky A, Tegelaar M, Wosten HAB, Powell AL, Beasley AE, Mayne R. On Boolean gates in fungal colony. Biosystems. 2020;193-194(104138)
  21. Adamatzky A, Draper T, Tsomapanas MA, Fullarton C, Mayne R. Liquid Marble Photosensor. ChemPhysChem. 2019;21(90):1–10
  22. Chiolerio A, Draper TC, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. On resistance switching and oscillations in tubulin microtubule droplets. Journal of Colloid And Interface Science. 2020;560:589–595
  23. Draper TC, Phillips N, Weerasekera R, Mayne R, Fullarton C, Lacy BPJD, et al. Contactless Sensing of Liquid Marbles for Detection and Characterisation. Lab on a Chip. 2019;20(1):136–146
  24. Draper T, Fullarton C, Mayne R, Phillips N, Canciani G, de Lacy Costello BPJ, et al. Mapping outcomes of liquid marble collisions. Soft Matter. 2019;
  25. Phillips N, Draper TC, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Marimo machines: oscillators, biosensors and actua- tors. Journal of Biological Engineering. 2019;13(1):72
  26. Yang H, Mayne R, Deng Y. A Bio-inspired Network Design Method for Intelligent Transportation. International Journal of Unconventional Computing. 2019;Preprint
  27. Whiting JGH, Mayne R, Melhuish C, Adamatzky A. A Cilia-inspired Closed-loop Sensor-actuator Array. Journal of Bionic Engineering. 2018;15(3):526—-532
  28. Whiting JGH, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. A Parallel Modular Biomimetic Cilia Sorting Platform. Biomimetics. 2018;3(5):1–15
  29. Fullarton C, Draper T, Phillips N, Mayne R, de Lacy Costello BPJ, Andrew A. Evaporation, Lifetime, and Robustness Studies of Liquid Marbles for Collision-Based Computing. Langmuir. 2018;
  30. Adamatzky A, Akl S, Burgin M, Calude CS, Costa JF, Dehshibi MM, et al. East-West paths to unconventional computing. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 2017;
  31. Phillips N, Adamatzky A, Mayne R. What if houses were powered by milk? Biosystems. 2017;153- 154:1–5
  32. Walter XA, Horsfield I, Mayne R, Ieropoulos IA, Adamatzky A. On hybrid circuits exploiting ther- mistive properties of slime mould. Nature Scientific Reports. 2016;6(23925)
  33. Gizzie N, Mayne R, Yitzchaik S, Ikbal M, Adamatzky A. Living Wires - Effects of Size and Coating of Gold Nanoparticles in Altering the Electrical Properties of Physarum polycephalum and Lettuce Seedlings Living Wires — Effects of Size and Coating of Gold Nanoparticles in Altering the Electrical Properties of. Nano LIFE. 2016;6(1):165001
  34. Gizzie N, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. On modulating the Physarum polycephalum plasmodium’s electrical resistance, resting membrane potential and capacitance by application of nanoparticles and nanostruc- tures. Organic Electronics. 2016;32:267–273
  35. Gizzie N, Mayne R, Patton D, Kendrick P, Adamatzky A. On hybridising lettuce seedlings with nanoparticles and the resultant effects on the organisms ’ electrical characteristics. BioSystems. 2016;147:28–34
  36. Assaf T, Mayne R, Adamatzky A, Melhuish C. Emergent Behaviors in a Bio-Inspired Platform Con- trolled by a Physical Cellular Automata Cluster. Biomimetics. 2016;1(5):1–13
  37. Martinez GJ, Adamatzky A, Mayne R, Chen F, He Q. Majority Gates and Circular Computation in Slime Mould. In: ECAL2015: The Thirteenth European Conference on Artificial Life. vol. 27. York, UK; 2015. p. 18–24
  38. Tsompanas MaI, Mayne R, Sirakoulis GC, Adamatzky AI. A Cellular Automata Bioinspired Algo- rithm Designing Data Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. 2015;501:471045
  39. Jones J, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Representation of shape mediated by environmental stimuli in Physarum polycephalum and a multi-agent model. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems. 2015;(2):166–184 4
  40. Costello BJPDL, Mayne R, Adamatzky A. Conducting polymer-coated Physarum polycephalum towards the synthesis of bio-hybrid electronic devices. International Journal of General Systems. 2015;44(3):409—-420
  41. Adamatzky A, Mayne R. Actin Automata: Phenomenology and Localizations. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. 2015;25(2)
  42. Gale E, Mayne R, Adamatzky A, De Lacy Costello B. Drop-coated titanium dioxide memristors. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 2014;143(2):524–529
  43. Adamatzky A, Armstrong R, De Lacy Costello B, Deng Y, Jones J, Mayne R, et al. Slime mould analogue models of space exploration and planet colonisation. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 2014;67:290–304 Book Chapters, Non-Primary Author
  44. Adamatzky A, Mayne R. Actin Automata: Phenomenology and Localisations. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Actin Computation. World Scientific; 2024. p. 9–36
  45. Adamatzky A, Tegelaar M, Wosten H, Beasley A, Mayne R. On Boolean gates in fungal colony. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Fungal machines: sensing and computing with fungi. vol. 47. World Scientific; p. 275–292
  46. Deshibi M, Chiolerio A, Nikolaidou A, Mayne R, Gandia A, Ashtari-Majlan M, et al. On stimulating fungi Pleurotus Ostreatus with hydrocortisone. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Fungal machines: sensing and computing with fungi. vol. 47. World Scientific; 2023. p. 105–121
  47. Adamatzky A, De Lacy Costello B, Draper T, Fullarton C, Mayne R, Philips N, et al. Sensing and Computing with Liquid Marbles. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Handbook of Unconventional Computing. World Scientific; 2022. p. 371–429
  48. Dillon T, Ballam E, Mayne R, Phillips N, Adamatzky A. Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture. River Publishers; 2019. p. 171–188
  49. Adamatzky A, Harding S, Erokhin V, Mayne R, Gizzie N, Baluska F, et al. Computers from plants we never made. Speculations. In: Stepney S, Andrew A, editors. Inspired by Nature. Computing inspired by physics, chemistry and biology. Essays presented to Julian Miller on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Springer; 2017. p. [epub ahead of print]
  50. Adamatzky A, Jones J, Mayne R, Whiting J, Schumann A, Siccardi S. PhyChip : Growing Computers with Slime Mould. In: Stepney S, Rasmussen S, Amos M, editors. Computational Matter. Springer; p. 109–126
  51. Gale E, Matthews O, Jones J, Mayne R, Sirakoulis G, Adamatzky A. Physarum Inspired Audio: From Oscillatory Sonification to Memristor Music. In: Guide to Unconventional Computing and Music; 2017.
  52. Adamatzky A, Jones J, Mayne R, Tsuda S, Whiting J. Logical Gates and Circuits Implemented in Slime Mould. In: Adamatzky A, editor. Advances in Physarum Machines. Springer; 2016. p. 37–74

Conference Proceedings

  1. Mayne R, Adamatkzy A. Slime mould actin sensoriactuation networks : topology, dynamic transfor- mations and models of self-assembly. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015; 2015. p. 25–32

  2. Mayne R, Adamatzky A. The Physarum polycephalum actin network: formalisation , topology and morphological correlates with computational ability. In: 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS); 2014. p. 87–94

Book Reviews

  1. Mayne R. Book Review: Embryogenesis Explained. International Journal of Unconventional Computing. 2017;13:83–84