'Bio-computer' sets up and decodes images

Scientists at Scripps Research Institute in California (USA) and Israel Technological Research Institute have developed a 'bio-computer' called Turing , the author's name that created it entirely from biological molecules. capable of creating and decoding images on DNA ICs despite DNA used to generate data codes in the past.

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This is considered to be the first evidence of a secret DNA-based imaging molecule. Instead of using traditional computer hardware, the group of researchers led by Prof. Ehud Keinan Scripps Research Institute created a computer system using biological molecules, when the software is suitable for application. on this biological computer, it can decode, separate the fluorescent images and the Technion symbol.

Explain the alliance between biology and computer science, GS. Keinan said that computers are made up of 4 components, which are hardware, software, output and input. Traditional computers are often electronic devices, machines that both input and output are electronic signals.

Hardware is a complex component of plastic, metal, wire and integrated circuit components. The software is a series of documents installed on the device in the form of electronic signals.

'Contrary to electronic computers, there are computers without the four components mentioned above, but there are molecules' , Keinan said.

Scientists have developed capable 'bio-computers'
create and decode images on DNA circuits. (Photo: Science Daily).

The bio-computer device was designed by mathematician, cryptographer and computer scientist named Alan Turing, 75-year-old British. He is also an influential person in the development of high computer science, and he is also an important person in making modern computers today.

The mechanism of Turing biological computers is to contain a series of symbols and characters that recall a DNA strand. Accordingly, the reader part runs from one character to another and each point takes place 4 operations. It is reading the character, replacing that character with another character, changing the internal operating state and moving to the next position.

A guideline is known as guidelines for use.

'Grandfather' Keinan hopes, this bio-computer model will compete with the current version of electronic computers.

This research was recently published in Angewandte Chemie.