In 2011 numerous papers reporting discoveries in the fields of genetics and molecular biology highlighted the rapid advance of bioinformatics, the science that brings together biological data and information storage, distribution, and analysis.
Nanobiotechnology is used in relation to the ways in which nanotechnology is used to create materials, devices and systems for studying biological systems and developing new biological assay, diagnostic, therapeutic, information storage and computing systems, among others.
Supramolecular structures modeled after biological systems (DNA and enzymes) are being developed to simultaneously mimic natural biological functions including catalysis, information storage, and self-assembly and to engineer novel electronic and magnetic properties.
There are exciting potential of nanoparticles in catalysis [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], DNA sequence recognition [8, 9, 10], nonlinear optical devices [11], biological sensors [12, 13], information storage [14], and plasmonics [15].
Bioinformatics, a hybrid science that links biological data with techniques for information storage, distribution, and analysis to support multiple areas of scientific research, including biomedicine.
Could it lead to more sophisticated storage of biological information?
The model may be shown to have advantages over traditional neural network models both in terms of information storage capacity and biological plausibility.
Specifically, DNA computing is a new computational model which uses DNA molecules as information storage and their possible biological interactions as processing operators.
They can be potentially applied in fabricating microdevice, optical switching, information storage, anti-counterfeiting as well as biological imaging.
