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Many science fiction stories start with a mixture of biological and electronic remainders or connect some parts of the human brain with some computer parts. The final result is then an intelligent robot. The topic of this chapter is removed from such utopian ideas and from the unrealistic promises of some members of the artificial intelligence community in the 1960s. Here we introduce an existing and non-hypothetical biological information-processing technology. Whether this technology will cause a breakthrough in automatic problem-solving depends on a conceivable progress in the development of biochemical methods for the investigation of DNA sequences.
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Hromkovič, J. (2009). Computing with DNA Molecules, or Biological Computer Technology on the Horizon. In: Algorithmic Adventures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85986-4_8
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