Technical Lead | Microsoft Azure Expert | Systems Design | Studying Masters in Cyber Security
What is one common thing that all of living beings have? It is DNA, the ultimate computing platform. Did you ever get the thought that is it possible to build a machine to solve complex problems using DNA? Probably No, but one person had this idea and went on to prove that it is possible to do so. This gave rise to the DNA computing technology, the topic of our learning this week. There is a well known complex mathematical problem called Hamilton path problem. The gist of it is to find shortest route to be taken by a sales person going through each city once. Adleman solved this problem using test tubes and DNA. To keep our discussion simple, Adleman used test tubes and found a way to solve it using DNA genetic coding. In the paper that he wrote, he discussed the need for enormous computing resources to be able to solve complex science problems that regular computers and super computers take years to solve. DNA computing is put forth as one of the options along with quantum computing to solve this. DNA computing machines will be built using DNA molecules instead of silicon chips. Logic gates will be built by stranding DNA together. All the material used is available naturally and is non toxic, and cheap. It will be years before these become mainstream, while pros and cons are being weighed at this moment and whole field is in its infancy. Applications does not involve every day games and servers. It will be used for identifying optimal routes for shipping, airlines, and cracking complex cryptographic problems. See you all next week. #DNAComputing #innovation #learning
