The combination of atheoretical model of the living cell and membrane computing suggests a new variant of a computational
model based on membrane-enclosed compartments defined and presented in this paper for the first time. This variant is based
on simple and basic concepts: conformons, a combination of information and energy; locality ofthe interactions of conformons,
permitted by the presence of membrane-enclosed compartments; communication via conformons between membrane-enclosed compartments.
The computational power of this new system is sketched. Possible other variants of this model and links with Petri nets are
outlined.
Work partially supported by contribution of EU commission under The Fifth Framework Program, project “MolCoNet” IST-2001-32008