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SUMMARY:Molecular programming – moving from electronic computation to mo
 lecular systems - Daria Dicu\, Sidney Sussex College
DTSTART:20150121T194000Z
DTEND:20150121T203000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Many of us\, as computer scientists\, are accustomed to comput
 ational systems that are of electronic nature. In my talk\, I will present
  other computational systems\, based on biology and biochemistry.\nA semin
 al paper in this field by Adleman shows a way of using molecular computati
 on to solve a combinatorial problem by encoding a graph in DNA molecules. 
 Păun introduced a new computational model\, called P systems\, which uses
  biological processes as inspiration for performing calculations. The form
 er uses biological structures as hardware and was devised to perform a spe
 cific computation - solving the Hamiltonian path problem - while the latte
 r was modelled to provide an alternative to current computational models -
  it is not intended to be implemented using biological structures\, it rat
 her uses them as an inspiration. I shall describe the two in more detail a
 nd talk about the computational power of P systems\, while comparing it to
  that of other computational models that are in wider use.
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
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