The information-processing abilities of DNA are a form of natural molecular computing, and computer viruses leap from machine to machine in ways reminiscent of their disease-causing namesakes.
Tom's News and Views article, "Molecular computing: In situ computation of cell identity", is published in Nature Nanotechnology.
Covers hardware implementations, artificial life, molecular computing and emergent computation techniques.
It features both theoretical and application papers and covers hardware implementations, artificial life, molecular computing and emergent computation techniques.
It emphasizes on future trends in molecular computing, local clocks and clockless computers.
Spatial locality brings the advantages of computation speed-up and sequence reuse to molecular computing.
For example, biomolecular computing, known also under the names of DNA computing, biocomputing, or molecular computing, is an emergent field lying at the crossroads of computer science and molecular biology.
In the specific case of molecular computing, the design of robust sets of sequences prevent from incorrect computations because DNA sequences are designed in order to avoid potentially conflicting interactions between the DNA molecules within the artificially generated library.
A chemist, a computer scientist, and a biophysicist are writing an Account of molecular computing for a special issue of Accounts of Chemical Research focusing on Ned Seeman's founding of the field of DNA nanotechnology.
Rueckes, T. et al. Carbon nanotube-based nonvolatile random access memory for molecular computing.
There are lots of suggestions: molecular computing, quantum computing or neuromorphic engineering, to name three.
