DNA SOLUTION OF HARD COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEMS

被引:743
作者
LIPTON, RJ
机构
[1] Princeton University, Princeton
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D O I
10.1126/science.7725098
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
DNA experiments are proposed to solve the famous ''SAT'' problem of computer science. This is a special case of a more general method that can solve NP-complete problems. The advantage of these results is the huge parallelism inherent in DNA-based computing. It has the potential to yield vast speedups over conventional electronic-based computers for such search problems.
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