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Navigating through a maze

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A DNA nanodevice performs pathfinding search and computes the solution of two-dimensional DNA origami puzzles.

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Fig. 1: A DNA origami maze solved by DNA computation.

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  1. Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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  2. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Georg Seelig

  3. Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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Seelig, G. Navigating through a maze. Nature Mater 18, 198–199 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-018-0279-y

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