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DNA Computers
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What are DNA Computers?
 DNA computers use DNA to store information and perform
complex calculations. DNA has a vast amount of
storage capacity computers might tap the vast storage
capacity that enables DNA to hold the complex blueprints
of living organisms. The storage capacity of a single gram
of DNA can
hold as much information as one trillion compact discs.
DNA
Computing
Is there a computer in your genes? A
team led by Dr. Leonard Adleman has shown that DNA
can be used to solve complex mathematical problems.
In Adleman's lab at USC, one-fiftieth of a teaspoon
of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has solved two
modestly difficult problems—the "Hamilton Path," or
"Traveling Salesman," problem and the "Customer
Satisfaction" or "NP-complete 3-SAT" problem. His
experiment has been heralded as the "start of a new
era," forging an unprecedented link between
computational science and life science.
‘DNA computer’ cracks code
A ‘DNA computer’ has been used to find the only correct answer from
over a million possible solutions to a computational
problem.
Living computers
Researchers genetically engineered
the bacterium E. coli to coax its DNA into computing
a classic mathematical puzzle known as the burned
pancake problem.
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Using 'Nature's Toolbox,' a DNA Computer Solves a
Complex Problem
A DNA-based computer has solved a logic problem that
no person could complete by hand, setting a new
milestone for this infant technology that could
someday surpass the electronic digital computer in
certain areas.
The new experiment was carried out by USC computer
science professor Dr. Leonard Adleman, who made
headlines in 1994 by demonstrating that DNA -- the
spiraling molecule that holds life's genetic code --
could be used to carry out computations.
DNA Computer
Purdue researchers stretch DNA on chip, lay track
for future computers
Researchers at Purdue University are making it easier to
read life's genetic blueprint. They have precisely placed
strands of DNA on a silicon chip and then stretched out
the strands so that their encoded information might be
read more clearly, two steps critical to possibly using
DNA for future electronic devices and computers.
DNA on chip
DNA Computer Links
A Glimpse at the Future of DNA:
M.D.'s Inside the Body
DNA basis for new generation of
computers
DNA computers to fight diseases
Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes
Will Future Computers Be Made of DNA? |
