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ArticleNature nanotechnology2019

Fast and compact DNA logic circuits based on single-stranded gates using strand-displacing polymerase.

Tianqi Song, Abeer Eshra, Shalin Shah, Hieu Bui, Daniel Fu, Ming Yang, Reem Mokhtar, John Reif

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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Tianqi SongDepartment of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0458-3747
Abeer EshraDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7572-524X
Shalin ShahDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Hieu BuiNational Research Council, Washington, DC, USA.
Daniel FuDepartment of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Ming YangDepartment of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Reem MokhtarDepartment of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
John ReifDepartment of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. reif@cs.duke.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9096-2056

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Abstract

DNA is a reliable biomolecule with which to build molecular computation systems. In particular, DNA logic circuits (diffusion-based) have shown good performance regarding scalability and correctness of computation. However, previous architectures of DNA logic circuits have two limitations. First, the speed of computation is slow, often requiring hours to compute a simple function. Second, the circuits are of high complexity regarding the number of DNA strands. Here, we introduce an architecture of DNA logic circuits based on single-stranded logic gates using strand-displacing DNA polymerase. The logic gates consist of only single DNA strands, which largely reduces leakage reactions and signal restoration steps such that the circuits are improved in regard to both speed of computation and the number of DNA strands needed. Large-scale logic circuits can be constructed from the gates by simple cascading strategies. In particular, we have demonstrated a fast and compact logic circuit that computes the square-root function of four-bit input numbers.

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Computers, MolecularAlgorithmsDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA, Single-StrandedNucleic Acid ConformationDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA, Single-Stranded

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