New Era. DNA Computing
Current world is entirely depends on a Silicon Chips. What will happen if human DNA will run our computer more efficiently, reliably and even more powerfully…!
Leonard Adleman.
A man behind this imaginary creation. Yep. It’s possible to run our computer with human DNA.
DNA Computing is fundamentally similar to parallel computing. It takes benifits of various molecules of DNA to try many possibilities at once. DNA Computers are faster and smaller than any other computer ever built.
Microprocessors made of silicon will eventually reach their limits of speed and miniaturization. Scientists have found the new material they need to build the next generation of microprocessors. DNA have the potential to calculate many times faster than world most powerful human built computer. DNA molecules have already been harnessed to perform complex mathematical problems.
Of course it may a big question in everyone’s mind. Why is a DNA a Unique Computational Element?
—-> It’s extraordinary energy efficient. Enormous parallelism. And also it’s extremely dense information storage.
The initial idea introduced by Leonard Adleman in 1994 was to use a strand of DNA to represent a math or logic problem. Then generate trillions of unique DNA strands, each represents a possible solution.
A general gate called “And Gate” links two DNA inputs by chemically binding.
DNA Computer components — Logic gates and Bio-chips — will take years to develop it into practical and workable DNA Computer. If Such computer ever built, scientist say that it will be more compact, accurate and efficient than conventional computers. DNA computers have the potential to take computing to new levels picking up where Moore’s law leaves off.
Advantages
DNA Computing offers much lower power consumption than traditional silicon computers.
The large supply of DNA makes it cheap resource.
DNA computers will many times smaller than today’s computers.
DNA has the capacity to store more information than all the electronic computers ever built.
More than 10 trillion DNA molecules can fit into an area no longer than 1 cubic centimeter. With this small of DNA, a computer would be able to hold 10TB of data, and can perform 10 trillion calculations once at a time.
