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Modelling in Molecular Biology pp 125–140Cite as

Towards Molecular Programming — a Personal Report on DNA8 and Molecular Computing

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According to the author’s view, research in the field of DNA and molecular computing is expanding into broader applications in nanotechnology and biotechnology, and the principles and methods for designing molecular systems with information-processing capability for such applications are considered important. We call research into designing such molecular systems molecular programming. This chapter first summarizes a recent international conference in this field, DNA8, the Eighth International Meeting on DNA Based Computers, to support the above, rather personal view on the field. Next, it reviews existing models of DNA and molecular computation and analyses the results of these models, and then briefly describes some methods for molecular programming, including sequence design. It finally touches on molecular machines made of DNA, one of the current focuses of molecular programming.

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Hagiya, M. (2004). Towards Molecular Programming — a Personal Report on DNA8 and Molecular Computing. In: Ciobanu, G., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Modelling in Molecular Biology. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18734-6_6

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