Thread: Future computers may be dna-based

FUTURE COMPUTERS MAY BE DNA-BASED

http://news.discovery.com/tech/futur...ed-110521.html

Maybe, I think that is not soon

Somewhere I read that scientists are developing a logical DNA molecules that can perform operations that are implemented on computers based on silicon-based computer with a primitive DNA chains can already play Renju.

I have only been seeing this thing on movies, if ever it does happen, that would be awesome!!!! So cooll

I think years from now will be 50-100

Physicists and engineers at the California Institute of Technology say they have managed to create "the world's largest computational scheme based on an organic DNA." Researchers say the use of technology in the future, you can easily scale to achieve greater productivity and complexity of computer systems.


Scientists say that such "bio-computers" represent a major step in the development of computer systems and have the potential to become a kind of control systems in other biological systems, such as drugs. They work like a DNA computer like a regular silicon chips, but is used for the organic basis.


"Once the DNA computers can perform full Boolean operations, as well as today's microprocessors are inorganic, but the first will be much more compact, energy efficient and they will be easier to integrate into biological systems, such as the human body. For example, biological computers could be embedded directly into cells or tissue, so that they can find disease and detect their agents "- say the developers.


Eric Uifri, one of the authors of the new development, said that simple DNA-based computers have been created before, but they were quite primitive and not able to perform a wide variety of operations. Now, scientists were able to generate 130 different synthetic strands of DNA that can be used to describe the logic circuits. From this source material they have created a molecule of 74, working on a 4-bit pattern that allows us to calculate the square root of any number to 15, rounding the result to an integer.


In addition, the DNA computer can work with so-called Boolean operations: logical "yes", "or" and "no", and that makes silicon chips. Also, DNA computers work with binary calculations.


California scientists say that their design is based on a 12-molecular DNA computer that was created in 2006.