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Biosensors for Bimolecular Computing: a Review and Future Perspectives

Aiassa, Simone
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Terracciano, Rossana
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Carrara, Sandro  
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June 22, 2020
Bionanoscience

Biomolecular computing is the field of engineering where computation, storage, communication, and coding are obtained by exploiting interactions between biomolecules, especially DNA, RNA, and enzymes. They are a promising solution in a long-term vision, bringing huge parallelism and negligible power consumption. Despite significant efforts in taking advantage of the massive computational power of biomolecules, many issues are still open along the way for considering biomolecular circuits as an alternative or a complement to competing with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) architectures. According to the Von Neumann architecture, computing systems are composed of a central processing unit, a storage unit, and input and output (I/O). I/O operations are crucial to drive and read the computing core and to interface it to other devices. In emerging technologies, the complexity overhead and the bottleneck of I/O systems are usually limiting factors. While computing units and memories based on biomolecular systems have been successfully presented in literature, the published I/O operations are still based on laboratory equipment without a real development of integrated I/O. Biosensors are suitable devices for transducing biomolecular interactions by converting them into electrical signals. In this work, we explore the latest advancements in biomolecular computing, as well as in biosensors, with focus on technology suitable to provide the required and still missing I/O devices. Therefore, our goal is to picture out the present and future perspectives about DNA, RNA, and enzymatic-based computing according to the progression in its I/O technologies, and to understand how the field of biosensors contributes to the research beyond CMOS.

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review article
DOI
10.1007/s12668-020-00764-8
Web of Science ID

WOS:000542085700001

Author(s)
Aiassa, Simone
Terracciano, Rossana
Carrara, Sandro  
Demarchi, Danilo
Date Issued

2020-06-22

Publisher

SPRINGER

Published in
Bionanoscience
Volume

10

Start page

554

End page

563

Subjects

Materials Science, Biomaterials

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Materials Science

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biomolecular

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biosensing

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dna computing

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enzyme computing

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ribocomputing

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logic gate

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molecular computation

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enzyme-free

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half-adder

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low-cost

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dna

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devices

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sensor

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electrochemiluminescence

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chemiluminescence

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