Who will be the first to come up with a DNA computer or a cure for diabetes?
Most researchers to agree that there is little a DNA computer can do that a digital computer can't, even in theory.
Most researchers seem to agree that there is little a DNA computer can do that a digital computer can't, even in theory.
Because each DNA molecule works like an individual computer, Adleman says for some problems, a DNA computer could do 100 quadrillion (1 followed by 17 zeros) operations in a single step while consuming almost no energy.
Advances in the life sciences means it is now possible to design DNA on a computer screen and send the DNA code to a "bio printer" for assembly.
This one family, in Ogden, Utah, has watched as five children in two generations have died from a mysterious disease that science could not explain.. Thanks to huge leaps being made in DNA sequencing and in computer programs to decipher genetic code, researchers were able to find the gene for this disease in just sixteen months.
She receives back text files filled with DNA sequences and uses a computer program to take these values and correlate them with human traits such as eye color and gender.
Customers will be able to access and analyze DNA data on a password-protected computer cloud.
Companies that make machines to sequence DNA like to compare themselves to the personal computer industry in its early days.
Defence lawyers have questioned the computer-based method used by a US DNA expert in the investigation into the murder of two soldiers in March 2009.
The E. coli computer differs from a regular computer in that it turn each piece of DNA into a simulated pancake, with sections of DNA being flipped to hide from a killer antibiotic if they get the answer right, and killed if they get the answer wrong.
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Virginia currently has 122, 000 DNA profiles stored in a "stand-alone, secure" computer.
If the DNA of a human being or any other organism resembled a carefully constructed computer program, with neatly arranged and logically structured modules each written to fulfill a specific function, the evidence of intelligent design would be overwhelming.
To a computer, pattern recognition is pattern recognition, whether on a string of DNA or a customer database.
In this case, the DNA was designed to operate on a very simple logic gate system, just like a computer.
There, a DNA-sequencing machine fired lasers at the fragments and read their genetic code, yielding a computer file in the form of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
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In what appears to be an early proof-of-concept for DNA computing, scientists at Columbia University and the University of New Mexico have created a basic computer, called the MAYA-II, which has a molecular array of YES and AND logic gates made up of 100 DNA circuits.
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The 5.27 megabits of data are more than 600 times bigger than the largest data set previously encoded in DNA. It is the equivalent of the storage capacity of a 3.5-inch floppy computer disk.
Again, the same standard equipment used in molecular biology labs to read the DNA of organisms is used to pull out the information so that it can be displayed on a computer screen once more.
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