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GETTING OUR BEARINGS IN DNA COMPUTING
-- PANEL DISCUSSION --
10:45-12:30 July 13, 1999
This discussion will attempt to clarify the outstanding unresolved
issues in DNA computing.
A brief and incomplete list of concerns is given below.
Issues and opinions are solicited.
Come prepared to raise other issues and to comment on those listed below.
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What are the accomplishments in DNA computing to date?
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What are the problems for which DNA based computing is the preferred
solution method?
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Can laboratory techniques
be found or modified to address
the need for low error rates?
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What are the physical limits on using large quantities of DNA with
existing laboratory techniques?
- What aspects of DNA computing are most analogous to conventional computation?
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Can Evolutionary Computations be carried out with DNA?
- Huge populations could be used. How much would this help?
- Is the effectiveness of crossover better with large populations?
- Can we predict what mutation rates might be appropriate?
- Are new, stochastic, models of computation needed?
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Can one encode information into strands of DNA
using A-T and C-G paring in such a way
the strands pair up (hybridize) only
where they are supposed to?
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What are the most immediate problems in DNA computing that need to be addressed?
Panelists
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Max Garzon
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Masami Hagiya
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Natasha Jonoska
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Stephen A. Karl
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John McCaskill
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Hiroshi Tanaka
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David Harlan Wood (Moderator)
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