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BY
P.Sramika, III B.tech (ECE),
R.V.R. Institute of engineering and tech(Ibp)
S.Amoolya, III B.tech (ECE),
T.K.R. college of engineering and tech
E-mail id:
meerasramika@yahoo.com
samoolya@yahoo.in
ABSTRACT:
Silicon molecules to build computers
microprocessors have been the that are faster than the world’s
heart of computing world for most powerful human-built
more than forty years. computers is called DNA
Computer chip manufacturers computing. Molecular
are furiously racing to make biologists are beginning to
the next microprocessor that unravel the information
will topple speed records and processing tools such as
in the process are cramming enzymes, copying tools,
more and more electronic proofreading mechanisms and
devices onto the so on, that evolution has spent
microprocessor. Sooner or millions of years refining.
later the physical speed and Now we are taking those tools
limits of silicon in large numbers molecules
microprocessors is bound to and using them as biological
hit a wall. computer processors.
Chipmakers DNA computing has
need a new material to a great deal of advantage over
produce faster computing conventional silicon-based
speed with fewer computing. DNA computers
complexities. You won’t can store billions of times
believe where scientists have more data than your personal
found this new material. computer. DNA computers
DNA, the material our genes have the ability to work in a
are made of, is being used to massively parallel fashion,
build the next generation of performing many calculations
microprocessors. Scientists simultaneously. DNA
are using this genetic material molecules that provide the
to create nano-computers that input can also provide all the
might take the place of silicon necessary operational energy.
computers in the next decade. DNA computing has
A nascent made a remarkable progress in
technology that uses DNA almost every field. It has
found application in fields like Scientists and
biomedical, pharmaceutical, researchers believe that in the
information security, cracking foreseeable future DNA
secret codes, etc. computing could scale up to
great heights!
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