DNA Computing

Welcome to the World of Hamiltonian Path Problems, Salesmen, and Affinity Purification

DNA computing. Until very recently, the majority of the public would have stopped and stared at anyone mentioning the subject. "DNA can't be used for computing," they would have said. But now, we know that this isn't true. In 1994, Leonard M. Adleman was the first to use DNA to compute a problem, and, though he didn't know it at the time, was also creating a whole new field of science that would combine biology and computers in ways that, a few years ago, would have been unimaginably impossible.

This section of Double Helix is on DNA computing, as you may have guessed. It is not meant to go into an in-depth analysis of the whole DNA computing process, but will introduce you to a new, just-developing kind of computing method that has the potnential to become the fastest, smallest type of the computer ever created.

This section contains the sub-sections:

Introduction
Are You Really A Computer?
DNA Computing Example
Finding Solutions
The Future