On the Scalability of Molecular Computational Solutions to NP Problems
dc.creator | Dónaill,Dónall A. Mac | |
dc.date | 1996 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-06T12:48:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-06T12:48:09Z | |
dc.description | A molecular computational procedure in which manipulation of DNA strands may be harnessed to solve a classical problem in NP - the directed Hamiltonian path problem - was recently proposed [Adleman 1994], [Gifford 1994]. The procedure is in effect a massively parallel chemical analog computer and has a computational capacity corresponding to approximately CPU years on a typical 10 MFLOP workstation. In this paper limitations on the potential scalability of molecular computation are considered. A simple analysis of the time complexity function shows that the potential of molecular systems to increase the size of generally solvable problems in NP is fundamentally limited to . Over the chemically measurable picomolar to molar concentration range the greatest practical increase in problem size is limited to | |
dc.format | text/html | |
dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-002-02-0087 | |
dc.identifier | https://lib.jucs.org/article/27220/ | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://openrepository.mephi.ru/handle/123456789/6925 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.publisher | Journal of Universal Computer Science | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/0948-6968 | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pissn/0948-695X | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
dc.rights | J.UCS License | |
dc.source | JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 2(2): 87-95 | |
dc.subject | Molecular Computation | |
dc.subject | DNA | |
dc.subject | NP-problem | |
dc.title | On the Scalability of Molecular Computational Solutions to NP Problems | |
dc.type | Research Article |