Author	Pฤun, Gheorghe. author
Title	DNA Computing [electronic resource] : New Computing Paradigms / by Gheorghe Pฤun, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa
Imprint	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03563-4
Descript	IX, 400 p. online resource

This is the first text and monograph about DNA computing, a molecular approach that might revolutionize our thinking and ideas about computing. Although it is too soon to predict whether computer hardware is likely to change from silicon to carbon and from microchips to DNA molecules, the theoretical premises have already been studied extensively. The book starts with an introduction to DNA-related matters, the basics of biochemistry and language and computation theory, and progresses to the advanced mathematical theory of DNA computing. Apart from being well-known scientists, all three authors are known for their lucid writing. Many of their previous books have become classics in their field, and this book too is sure to follow their example

Introduction: DNA Computing in a Nutshell -- I: Background and Motivation -- 1 DNA: Its Structure and Processing -- 2 Beginnings of Molecular Computing -- II: Mathematical Theory -- 3 Introduction to Formal Language Theory -- 4 Sticker Systems -- 5 WatsonโCrick Automata -- 6 Insertion-Deletion Systems -- 7 Splicing Systems -- 8 Universality by Finite H Systems -- 9 Splicing Circular Strings -- 10 Distributed H Systems -- 11 Splicing Revisited

1. Computer science
2. Biotechnology
3. Computers
4. Mathematical logic
5. Microbiology
6. Computer Science
7. Theory of Computation
8. Computation by Abstract Devices
9. Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
10. Biotechnology
11. Microbiology