Maggie Chua
1 min readJan 17, 2021

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Those are things that I didn't consider, but thank you for letting me know! I will definitely check that out! I just started learning about biocomputing recently and I hope to broaden my understanding of the topic. When I mentioned the two examples of DNA data storage and drug delivery genetic circuits, it was to show how computational ideas/methods could be applied to biology. In fact, a subfield of biocomputing is biomolecular computing whereby exploiting interactions between biomolecules (RNA, DNA, proteins, etc.) you can use these properties for communication, storage, and computation. One of the future hopes for the field is creating a biological computer made of biomolecules that can perform computations. At the moment, we still haven't reached that stage, so we're first applying principles such as logic gates and bits for the above mentioned applications. I could be wrong about these points as I'm just starting out, but I do agree that the overlap between the two fields has huge potential for advancement.

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Maggie Chua
Maggie Chua

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