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CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Publication), INRIA (Institut national de recherche en informatique et automatique) (Publication), Damien Woods (Intervention)
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DOI : 10.60527/j0f7-jf49
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Damien Woods. Inria. (2021, 20 mai). 21 Molecular Algorithms Using Reprogrammable DNA Self-Assembly. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://doi.org/10.60527/j0f7-jf49. (Consultée le 9 juillet 2025)
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21 Molecular Algorithms Using Reprogrammable DNA Self-Assembly

Réalisation : 20 mai 2021 - Mise en ligne : 21 mai 2021
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The history of computing tells us that computers can be made of almost anything: silicon, gears and levers, neurons, flowing water, interacting particles or even light. Although lithographically patterned silicon surfaces have been by far the most successful of these, they give us a limited view of what computation is capable of.


Algorithms typically control the flow of information by controlling the flow of electrons through digital-electronic devices, but in the field of molecular computing we imagine algorithms that control matter itself.

This talk will be about DNA molecules that interact with each other in a test tube to execute algorithms. We will show how DNA can be re-engineered to act not only as an information encoding polymer (as it is in biology) but also as a computational primitive for executing somewhat soggy computer programs. The talk will showcase some of our wet-lab results on implementing 21 different algorithms using self-assembling DNA strands [1]. We will also see how tools from the theory of computation can help us understand what kinds of computations molecules are capable of.

[1] Woods*, Doty*, Myhrvold, Hui, Zhou, Yin, Winfree. Diverse and robust molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly. Nature 567:366-372. 2019. *Joint lead co-authors.


 




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