1. A New Player in the History of Computation A brief look at the history of humanity shows that since the earliest days people needed to count and compute, either for measuring the months and the seasons or for commerce and construction. The means used for performing calculations were whatever was available, and thus progressed gradually from manual (digits) to mechanical (abacus, mechanical a...

Elaborating on Fost’s comments, Shapiro stressed that it is scientists who must ultimately decide on the ethical use of their innovations. “Ethical issues will always accompany science,” he said, adding that making public policy on such charged issues in a liberal democracy is by definition fraught with difficulties. First, there is the right of the individual to pursue his or her own life, goa...

The aim of this manuscript is to illustrate the current state of the art of DNA computing achievements, especially of new approaches or methods contributing to solve either theoretical or application problems. Starting with the NP-problem that Adleman solved by means of wet DNA experiment in 1994, DNA becomes one of appropriate alternatives to overcome the silicon computer limitation. Today, ma...

The project is based on the combination of DNA Nanomachines with DNA Origamis. The main objective is to use DNA hybridization schemes and Origamis nano-platforms to construct hierarchical sequence of Boolean operations with modular structures. Watson Crick selective pairing between nucleotides has been found robust enough to devise a new kind of molecular motors (B. Yurke et al Nature 2000 406,...

Advance the DNA Computing. (August 2003) Zhiquan Frank Qiu , B.S., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Mi Lu It has been previously shown that DNA computing can solve those problems currently intractable on even the fastest electronic computers. The algorithm design for DNA computing...

This paper tries to explain complex DNA Computing in an technically easy manner. As this field is still emerging, it gives an immense oppurutinity for research. This paper tries to mainly focus on basics of DNA computing in Adleman's Experiments.

The goal of this research is to improve the programmability of DNA-based computers. Novel clockable microreactors can be connected in various ways to solve combinatorial optimisation problems, such as Maximum Clique or 3-SAT. This work demonstrates by construction how one micro-reactor design can be programmed optically to solve any instance of Maximum Clique up to its given maximum size (N). I...

This paper presents a DNA Computing potential in areas of encryption, genetic programming, language systems, and algorithms. DNA computing takes advantage of DNA or related molecules for storing information and biotechnological operations for manipulating this information. A DNA computer has extremely dense information storage capacity, provides tremendous parallelism, and exhibits extraordinar...