Shaping up nucleic acid computation
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Shaping up nucleic acid computation.
Nucleic acid-based nanotechnology has always been perceived as novel, but has begun to move from theoretical demonstrations to practical applications. In particular, the large address spaces available to nucleic acids can be exploited to encode algorithms and/or act as circuits and thereby process molecular information. In this review we not only revisit several milestones in the field of nucle...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Biotechnology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0958-1669
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2010.05.003