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DNA automaton is utilized as a processing core of a nano-scale processor that can deal with molecular information directly. We are studying on photonic DNA automaton in which light and DNA are used as information carriers. In the automaton, the internal states are represented as the conformation of DNA, or the spatial position of the specific bases in the DNA strand, and the state-transition is induced by an external optical signal. This paper focuses on a method for state representation and state transition control based on the conformation of DNA. An implementation using hairpin-DNA is experimentally demonstrated to verify the proposed scheme.
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Sakai, H., Ogura, Y., Tanida, J. (2009). Positional State Representation and Its Transition Control for Photonic DNA Automaton. In: Deaton, R., Suyama, A. (eds) DNA Computing and Molecular Programming. DNA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5877. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10604-0_13
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