> Genetic computing is obviously not a thing, genes are long terms storage, not processing. That's like saying the tape in Turing's machine is not computing.

> Genetic computing is obviously not a thing, genes are long terms storage, not processing. That's like saying the tape in Turing's machine is not computing. But if you include the RNA transcription and protein interactions and utilize the complementary base pairs, you can do processing. I recall seeing a paper where solving an NPC problem like Traveling Salesperson could be done with DNA chains being mixed and matched. There was a lot of excitement about this in the 90s and that was before we'd invented microchannels for faster codon analysis. But, to be clear, I don't think it's a computing area worth further investigation, I think the hype being built up during the development of the Human Genome Project, especially as they were building a lot of new tech and managed to finish sequencing two years ahead of schedule, got a lot of other industries excited. They were still years from completion in '97 but the biological process seemed like massively parallel compute that could scale faster than an effort to build the equivalent data centers.. EDIT: dug up an article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/news000113-10 https://www.nature.com/articles/news000113-10 "DNA computer helps traveling salesman" in January 2000. Liu,Q., Wang, L., Frutos, A.G., Condon, A.E., Corn, R.M. & Smith, L.M. DNA computing on surfaces Nature 403, 175 2000.