Microfluidics provides a powerful technology for both the production of molecular computing components and for the implementation of molecular computing architectures.
The development of regulatory elements, molecular computing devices, and effector screening technologies has enabled researchers to design synthetic gene circuits in many organisms, including mammalian cells.
It emphasizes on future trends in molecular computing, local clocks and clockless computers.
Longer-term opportunities include nanoscale logic architectures, nano-enabled macroelectronics and optoelectronics and molecular computing.
Preliminary work toward targeted applications ranging from optical utility in light harvesting, lasing, molecular computing, optical data storage and encryption to biosensing and photodynamic therapy are discussed.
The possibility of controlling ribozyme activity by external stimuli is of particular relevance for applications in different fields, such as environmental and medicinal diagnostics, molecular computing, control of gene expression and others.
Molecular electronics and molecular computing is good solution to overcome the present limitation of computing devices and storage information, speed of operation.
However, the design of reliable DNA libraries which can be used for molecular computing involves several heterogeneous and conflicting design criteria that cannot be properly modeled by using traditional optimization algorithms.
Recent years have seen a growing interest in computational methods based upon natural phenomena with biologically inspired techniques, such as cellular automata, immune human systems, neural networks, DNA and molecular computing.
