SLIDE 20 Motivation Operations on DNA Solution to Knapsack Problem Perspectives
Operations on DNA (Selection)
Enzymatically catalysed reactions
- Ligation (concatenation)................
T A C G G C A
P
T A T T A
P
T A C G G C T A A T T A
- Digestion (cleavage).....................
A T G C C G G C C G A T HinP1 I A T G C G C
P
C G C G A T
P
G C C G G C C G 5’ 3’ 3’ 5’
- Labelling (strand end modification)
A T G C C G G C C G A T A T G C C G G C C G A T
P P
+ 5’−Phosphat
- Polymerisation (completion)..........
A G C G G C C A A T G C C G G C
- PCR (polymerase chain reaction)...
........ duplicate strands Separation and analysis of DNA strands
- Affinity purification (sep. by biotin)..
A C G C G T A A T G C T C
B T
A A T T A + 5’−Biotin T C
B T
A A T T A
- Gel electrophoresis (sep. by length)
sort and detect strands
- Sequencing (readout).......................
A C G G A A C 5’−ACGGAAC−3’
In-vitro Molecular Computing Based on DNA Strands Thomas Hinze