Title: Programmable DNA-mediated decision maker

Authors: Jian-Jun Shu; Qi-Wen Wang; Kian-Yan Yong

Addresses: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore ' School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore ' School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

Abstract: DNA-mediated computing is a novel technology that seeks to capitalise on the enormous informational capacity of DNA and has tremendous computational ability to compete with the current silicon-mediated computing, due to massive parallelism and unique characteristics inherent in DNA interaction. In this paper, the methodology of DNA-mediated computing is utilised to enrich decision theory, by demonstrating how a novel programmable DNA-mediated normative decision-making apparatus is able to capture rational choice under uncertainty.

Keywords: deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; processor; material; programmable biochemical operator.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2017.085334

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 2017 Vol.10 No.1, pp.51 - 55

Received: 09 Sep 2015
Accepted: 17 Jun 2016

Published online: 23 Jul 2017 *

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