DNA Computing: New Ideas and Paradigms

  • Authors:
  • Grzegorz Rozenberg;Arto Salomaa

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICAL '99 Proceedings of the 26th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

DNA computing is one of the most exciting new developments in computer science, from both technological and theoretical point of view. We begin by observing how the structure of DNA molecules and the technics available for manipulating them are very suitable for computing. We then establish a link with certain fairly old results from computability theory which essentially explain why the main feature of DNA molecules, the Watson-Crick complementarity, gives rise to the Turing-universality of DNA computations. Selected areas of DNA computing, interesting from a theoretical point of view but offering also practical potential, will be briefly examined.