Programmable Molecular Networks

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titleProgrammable Molecular Networks
start_date2020/04/28
schedule18h
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location_infoamphi 15
summaryChemical reactions have been widely used to describe natural phenomena, but increasingly we are capable of using them to prescribe physical interactions, e.g. in DNA computing and synthetic biology. Thus, chemical reaction networks can be used as naturally concurrent programs that can be physically realized to produce and control molecular arrangements. Because of their relative simplicity and familiarity, and more subtly because of their computational power, they are quickly becoming a paradigmatic "programming language" for bioengineering. We discuss what can be programmed with chemical reactions, how these programs can be physically realized, and how they relate to the theory of concurrency.
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