Information Theory in Genome Analysis -- Towards a Theory of Life -- An Excursion through Quantitative Model Refinement -- Polarizationless P Systems with One Active Membrane -- Bridging Deterministic P Systems and Conditional Grammars -- Automated Verification of Stochastic Spiking Neural P Systems -- Dynamically Changing Environment for Generalized Communicating P Systems -- Spiking Neural P Systems with Structural Plasticity: Attacking the Subset Sum Problem -- P Systems with Generalized Multisets over Totally Ordered Abelian Groups -- On the Power of Catalytic P Systems with One Catalyst -- An Integrated Model Checking Toolset for Kernel P Systems -- A New Strategy to Improve the Performance of PDP-systems Simulators -- Automatic Translation of MP+V Systems to Register Machines -- On the Communication Complexity of the Vertex Cover Problem and 3-Satisfiability Problem in ECP systems -- Membrane Computing Meets Temperature: A Thermoreceptor Model as Molecular Slide Rule with EvolutionaryPotential -- A Solution of Horn-SAT with P Systems Using Antimatter -- Tissue P systems can be Simulated Efficiently with Counting Oracles -- Simulating FRSN P systems with real numbers in P-Lingua on sequential and CUDA platforms -- Pictures and Chomsky Languages in Array P System -- Sorting Using Spiking Neural P Systems with Anti-Spikes and Rules on Synapses -- Regulating Rule Application with Membrane Boundaries in P Systems -- Structured Grid Algorithms Modelled with Complex Objects -- Chemistry-inspired Adaptive Stream Processing -- Computing Partial Recursive Functions by Virus Machines -- About models derived from colonies.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Conference on Membrane Computing, CMC 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in August 2015. The 22 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The volume also contains 3 invited talks in full-paper length. .