Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 279 finding the best solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem and its relatives, and inst ...

280 CATALYZING INQUIRY Division of labor. In order to gather food, maintain the nest, defend against predators, and so on, a co ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 281 a digital code, particular strands of DNA can be used to code information, and in parti ...

282 CATALYZING INQUIRY Box 8.3 Adleman and DNA Computing Adleman used the tools of molecular biology to solve an instance of the ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 283 clease and ligase, while the software and input were encoded by double-stranded DNA. Pr ...

284 CATALYZING INQUIRY presence of DNA polymerase and DNA ligase, the rewrite rules cause new DNA molecules to be produced that ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 285 scene) and, in massively parallel fashion, identify potential matches. This idea could ...

286 CATALYZING INQUIRY A related problem is the lack of programmability of current models. Even if experimental verifica- tion o ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 287 biomolecular processes will be valuable. Already, commercial spinoff technologies are a ...

288 CATALYZING INQUIRY and neutralization, biomaterials synthesis, or any task that can be done by biochemistry. This is essen- ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 289 Researchers have begun to construct cellular logic gates in which signals are represent ...

290 CATALYZING INQUIRY Cellular circuits capable of logic operations have been demonstrated. For example, Elowitz and Leibler de ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 291 8.4.2.4 Applications While significant from a research view, synthetic biology also has ...

292 CATALYZING INQUIRY Aside from the technical challenges of achieving the desired results of synthetic biology projects, there ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 293 University of California, Berkeley, who is a leader in the area of the synthesis and co ...

294 CATALYZING INQUIRY Box 8.4 Enabling Technologies for DNA Self-replication DNA Surface Arrays Current DNA array technologies ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 295 Given a set of tiles with the appropriate pads, any arbitrary pattern of tiles can be c ...

296 CATALYZING INQUIRY Once the structure is completed, a number of methods can be used to obtain the output if necessary. The f ...

BIOLOGICAL INSPIRATION FOR COMPUTING 297 This approach has two main drawbacks: the speed of individual assemblies, and the error ...

298 CATALYZING INQUIRY Also, a wide variety of potential geometries exists for crossover tiles. There have been experiments with ...