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DIGITAL TO CHEMICAL INFORMATION. "In nature the digital information of the genome is transcribed to RNA and then translated into proteins by the complex machinery of the ribosome. One of the holy grails of DNA computing and DNA nanotechnology is to make artificial systems that can convert digital information into chemical molecules with similar efficiency." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

"DNA NANOTECHNOLOGY, the design and self-assembly of artificial nucleic acid-based structures or systems, has developed with a breath-taking pace in recent years. The technology offers an unparalleled ability to control structure and function at the molecular level and the sizes of the structures are expanding towards the micrometer domain." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

BIOPUNK. "iGEM stands for the “International Genetically Engineered Machines” competition. Thousands of student bioengineers from all over the world construct new life forms and race them every year at the Giant Jamboree in Boston. iGEM has been going on for ten years (2,500 competitors this year, over 32 countries, 20,000+ alumni) and gives a peerless window into the global grassroots synthetic-biology revolution." https://lnkd.in/d7F2bmz View in LinkedIn

DIAL UP PROPERTIES. "A future bio designer should be able to code the properties of a living system…by describing the desired features in a biological programming language. That programming language could be DNA, properly understood; but a better analogy might be to see DNA as the machine language — the 1s and 0s, of biology." https://lnkd.in/diYQdpu View in LinkedIn

ECONOMIC DRIVER. "Synbio could produce both transformative science and big business. By some estimates, the global market for synthetic biology is projected to grow to $16 billion by 2018. Much of the anticipated activity centers on pharmaceuticals, diagnostic tools, chemicals, and energy products, such as biofuels." https://lnkd.in/dgV87Ca View in LinkedIn

CREATING GENETIC MACHINES. "If genetic sequencing is about reading DNA, and genetic engineering as we know it is about copying, cutting and pasting it, synthetic biology is about writing and programming new DNA with two main goals: create genetic machines from scratch and gain new insights about how life works." https://lnkd.in/dgV87Ca View in LinkedIn

BIOCHIP IMPLANTS. "Molecular computing circuits...will be embedded in a biological host." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

ADAPTING DNA. "Given the large computational power of DNA systems, one challenge would be to adapt them to intracellular operation. Potential solutions could include the move from DNA to RNA building blocks (thus making them amenable to genetic encoding) or even developing peptide-based circuits that recapitulate some nucleic acids features." http://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Denmark_Workshop_2013.pdf View in LinkedIn

"MOLECULAR DEVICES made of nucleic acids show great potential for applications ranging from bio-sensing to intelligent nanomedicine. They allow computation to be performed at the molecular scale, while also interfacing directly with the molecular components of living systems. They form structures that are stable inside cells, and their interactions can be precisely controlled by modifying their nucleotide sequences." https://lnkd.in/dGaUYNR View in LinkedIn

INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES. "It has become generally accepted that the integrative analysis of the function of multiple gene products has become a critical issue for the future development of biology. It is thus likely that over the coming years and decades, the biological sciences will be increasingly focused on the systems properties of cellular and tissue functions. These are the properties that arise from the whole, and represent “real” biological properties." https://scholar.google.es/scholar?q=in+silico+chemistry+of+emergence+of+life&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj40qHQlMXLAhWCnRoKHRtCAjkQgQMICDAA View in LinkedIn