RNA nanotechnology for computer design and in vivo computation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 2000, 2013, Pages

  Qiu, Meikang ^a   Khisamutdinov, Emil ^b   Zhao, Zhengyi ^b   Pan, Cheryl ^c   Choi, Jeong Woo ^d   Leontis, Neocles B ^d   Guo, Peixuan ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Sogang University   (South Korea)

^d BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer; Molecular scale computing; Nanobiotechnology; Rna computation; Rna nanoparticles; Rna nanostructure

Indexed keywords

ACID RESISTANCE; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTERS; DNA SEQUENCES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL PARADIGM; ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MOLECULAR-SCALE COMPUTING; RNA NANOTECHNOLOGIES; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; TERTIARY INTERACTIONS; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE;

RNA;

RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; MOLECULAR-SCALE COMPUTING; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE; RNA COMPUTATION; RNA NANOPARTICLES; RNA NANOSTRUCTURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER; MOLECULAR-SCALE COMPUTING; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; RNA COMPUTATION; RNA NANOPARTICLES; RNA NANOSTRUCTURE;

COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; GENES, SWITCH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RNA; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84884882822     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0310     Document Type: Review

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