Molecular Neuron Realization

Abstract

Universal Turing machine is a notional computing machine that stimulated work leading to the development of modern computers. The Turing machine operates on finite sequences of symbols by scanning a data type. The striking analogy to information-encoding biochemical reactions on information-carrying molecules was inspired to apply this methodology in neural networks. The essential feature of such approach is hybridization of pairs of complementary DNA strings and possibility to represent highly parallel selective operations, which can enable creating alternative, neural architectures. We describe our original model of molecular neuron based on DNA computing paradigm. During computation appropriate molecules are chosen, each specifying one of the finite number of initial states or processing elements