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A SUCCESSOR TO SILICON + COMPUTER MADE FROM DNA AND ENZYMES (The…
A SUCCESSOR TO SILICON
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COMPUTER MADE FROM DNA AND ENZYMES
Silicon
won't be used anymore
DNA
DNA molecules
Extraordinary potential
Advantages
Inexhaustible and cheap
Biochip aren't toxic
Smaller and faster computer
Adleman
Inventor of DNA computer
Is programmable
More information than CDs
Answer simultaneously
DNA for complex mathematical problems
The travelling Salesman problem
Choose the shortest route
Going through each city only once
Bio computer
Found many solutions
Adleman had to choose the best
The process took him days
Between 7 cities
The components of the DNA computers
DNA molecules: Software
Enzymes: Hardware
Scientists tell what operations the DNA computer do
By selecting the composition of molecules
Molecules produce output
Scientists can see the length of results
On DNA molecules' output