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DNA Computers, Quantum Computers, and their Methods Recently in NATURE (403(2000) 175-179) a group of chemists and computer scientists, headed by Q Liu, published an article on DNA computing. As we know, we did not evolve DNA for the purpose of doing computations, but as a set of paired strings of standard molecules it provides the opportunity to use it for exactly that. Their article basically showed how to solve a computer problem in far less time than would be needed on a sequential computer ...

Ivars Peterson's MathLand June 17, 1996 DNA, Computers, and Killer Apps The second annual meeting on DNA-based computers, held last week at Princeton University, was a smaller, quieter affair than the inaugural event a year earlier. At that time, the dramatic news was still fresh in everyone's mind that computer scientist Leonard M. Adleman of the University of Southern California had solved a genuine, though simple mathematical problem by manipulating molecules of DNA in the laboratory. ...

Publications on DNA based Computers If you have comments regarding any of these papers please send me mail to: dabo@cs.princeton.edu Here is the text of the New-York times article on DNA computing from 4/11/95. Here is the text of the WIRED magazine article on DNA computing from August 95. It gives a nice overview of the subject. The original magazine article contains lots of figures which are not present here. Papers on DNA computing from Princeton Breaking DES Using a Molec ...

Related Why Files: Evolution vs. creationism Checkmate: Big Blue wins! Computer Animation Cloning DNA repair DNA attached to this gold-coated slide can work like a primitive computer. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but sometime, and soon, it'll do the thinking for both of us! Jeff Miller, Office of News and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. ...

The DNA Computer Talk given at the Australian Open Access User Group meeting on 13 October 1998 by Michael Paine. The August 1998 issue of Scientific American has an article "Computing with DNA" by Leonard Adleman. In this talk I would like to provide a brief description of Adleman's work because it could mark the beginning of a profound new development in computing power. Adleman is a qualified mathematician and computer scientist. He was one of the inventors of the RSA public-key encry ...