DNA-Based Molecular Computing, Storage, and Communications

DNAs exist in nature and could provide solutions to computing, storage, and communications as existing ones approach their physical limits. Plenty of research work has been conducted on DNA-based computing, data storage and molecular communications (MCs), but largely in isolation. There is a lack of...

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Published in:IEEE internet of things journal Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 897 - 915
Main Authors: Liu, Qiang, Yang, Kun, Xie, Jialin, Sun, Yue
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 15.01.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Communications systems
Computation
Computer architecture
Data storage
DNA
DNA computing
DNA-based communications
DNA-based storage
Electronic systems
Encoding
Information and communication technology
Memory
molecular communication (MC)
Periodic structures
Writing
ISSN:2327-4662, 2327-4662
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Summary:DNAs exist in nature and could provide solutions to computing, storage, and communications as existing ones approach their physical limits. Plenty of research work has been conducted on DNA-based computing, data storage and molecular communications (MCs), but largely in isolation. There is a lack of a unified place where the triples are put together to be discussed. This article aims to filling in this gap by providing an overview of each triplet. Starting from an overall description of DNA features and their reading and writing in practical terms, this article goes on to describe each of the three from three aspects: 1) requirements and differences from current electronic-dominating technologies; 2) their working principles; and 3) practical considerations. Recent advancement in each area is summarized and discussed. Furthermore, this article intends to call for researches that go beyond the boundary of each and encourages interconnection and joint research among the three. It proposes a molecular information and communication technology (ICT) system architecture with all its three components underpinned by DNAs. This article also identifies and discusses some new future directions, such as joint coding for storage and communications, directional DNA-based MCs, interfaces between molecular DNA systems and electronic systems. It is hoped that this article can spark more joint research across computing, storage, and communications in this exciting field of DNA-based molecular ICT systems.
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ISSN:2327-4662
2327-4662
DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2021.3083663