DNA computing
<architecture> The use of DNA molecules to encode computational problems.
Standard operations of molecular biology can then be used to solve some NP-hard
search problems in parallel using a very large number of molecules. The
exponential scaling of NP-hard problems still remains, so this method will
require a huge amount of DNA to solve large problems.
[L. M. Adleman, "Molecular Computation of Solutions to Combinatorial Problems",
Science 266:1021-1024, 1994].
(1997-02-11)
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