Title :
Agent-oriented approach to DNA computing
Author :
Steele, Grace ; Stojkovic, Vojislav
Author_Institution :
MSU, Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
DNA computing began in 1994 when Leonard Adleman showed that DNA computing was possible by solving the Traveling Salesman Problem on a DNA (molecule or chemical) computer. Since then, Adleman has demonstrated many times how to use the massive parallelism of billions of DNA strands to solve the toughest problems. Adleman´s work has greatly influenced our work, however, our approach is different. Adleman´s approach was chemical-oriented, while our approach is software agent-oriented based on modeling, simulation, visualization, and animation using the programming language Easel. We have tried to elevate Adleman´s work by making it more applicable and all encompassing. The work presents an agent-oriented approach to DNA computing using the Easel programming language. The Traveling Salesman Problem is used to demonstrate the idea and test the program.
Keywords :
biocomputers; biocomputing; object-oriented programming; programming languages; software agents; DNA computer; DNA computing; Easel programming language; Traveling Salesman Problem; animation; modeling; simulation; software agent-oriented approach; visualization; Animation; Biochemistry; Biology computing; Chemical processes; Computational modeling; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer languages; DNA computing; Traveling salesman problems; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, 2004. CSB 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2194-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSB.2004.1332491
