There's a guy in my deptartment that does stuff like this. The basic idea is to model chemical reactions with DNA. The chemical reactions surprisingly simple (x

There's a guy in my deptartment that does stuff like this. The basic idea is to model chemical reactions with DNA. The chemical reactions surprisingly simple (x + y' --> y is essentially an AND gate, for example). In fact, they've even made a C-->chemical reaction compiler! >the jury is still out on applications I disagree -- I see huge applications, especially in medicine. There were some people from Caltech that used a DNA-computer to kill cancer cells extremely effectively. More papers are available here: http://cctbio.ece.umn.edu/wiki/index.php/Papers,_Theses,_and_Slides#Computing_with_Molecules http://cctbio.ece.umn.edu/wiki/index.php/Papers,_Theses,_and... The compiler: http://cctbio.ece.umn.edu/chem-compiler/chem-compiler.pl http://cctbio.ece.umn.edu/chem-compiler/chem-compiler.pl Cancer application: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~udi/papers/automoleculcomp_nat04.pdf http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~udi/papers/automoleculcomp...