Wetware: Molecular Computing and Cellular Machines

Considering that Moore's law is just an empirical observation and rests on the physical capacity of the microprocessor, that is, on the number of transistors that can fit per unit area, it is quite logical that software and hardware engineering is trying to get away from traditional information carriers on the material of connections silicon. Moreover, the term of Moore's law is clearly coming to an end . Computational organic has been thought of as a possible alternative for computational inorganics for many years. That is, theoretically, as well as (possibly) practically, there should be options for storing information in proteins and nucleic acids. Moreover, nucleic acids in nature perfectly cope with the encoding and transmission of information.





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The possibilities and problems of biotechnological programming are very briefly outlined here, but the topic seems to be very promising largely because the same laws of cellular replication make it possible to work with both nucleic acids and proteins / enzymes. The development of such possibilities would make it possible to combine the durability and informational redundancy of DNA (data storage) with a variety of proteins (data structures), and not only radically solve the problem of exhausting the possibilities of Moore's law, but also completely rethink computing technology, replacing software + hardware with wetware .      








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