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A Simple DNA Gate Motif for Synthesizing Large-Scale Circuits

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  • Lulu Qian
  • Erik Winfree
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 5347)

Abstract

The prospects of programming molecular systems to perform complex autonomous tasks has motivated research into the design of synthetic biochemical circuits. Of particular interest to us are cell-free nucleic acid systems that exploit non-covalent hybridization and strand displacement reactions to create cascades that implement digital and analog circuits. To date, circuits involving at most tens of gates have been demonstrated experimentally. Here, we propose a DNA catalytic gate architecture that appears suitable for practical synthesis of large-scale circuits involving possibly thousands of gates.

Keywords

Recognition Domain Threshold Gate Output Wire Gate Motif VHSIC Hardware Description Language 
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  • Lulu Qian
    • 1
  • Erik Winfree
    • 1
  1. 1.Computer Science, Computation & Neural Systems, and BioengineeringCalifornia Institute of TechnologyPasadenaUSA

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