Logic gates articles within Nature

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• Letter | 26 July 2017

  Complex cellular logic computation using ribocomputing devices

  De-novo-designed RNA molecules are used to construct cellular computing devices that can implement complex logic functions.

  • Alexander A. Green
  • , Jongmin Kim
  •  & Peng Yin

• News & Views | 20 July 2011

  DNA and the brain

  The idea that artificial neural networks could be based on molecular components is not new, but making such a system has been difficult. A network of four artificial neurons made from DNA has now been created. See Letter p.368

  • Anne Condon

• News & Views | 12 January 2011

  Division of logic labour

  Cellular compartmentalization is an effective way to build gene circuits capable of complex logic operations, in which binary inputs are converted into binary outputs according to user-defined rules. See Letters p.207 & p.212

  • Bochong Li
  •  & Lingchong You

• News & Views | 05 January 2011

  DNA as a logic operator

  Computers use transistor-based logic gates as the basis of their functions, but molecular logic gates would make them much faster. A report of DNA-based logic gates could be a first step towards molecular computing.

  • Thomas Carell

• Letter | 08 December 2010

  Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical ‘wires’

  For synthetic biologists' creativity to be unleashed, basic circuits must become truly interchangeable, that is, modular and scalable. This study, one of two linked papers, has harnessed bacterial 'quorum sensing' to achieve complex computation through communication between individual cells performing simple logic functions. Such extracellular 'chemical wiring' is one promising way to get around intracellular noise when building more complex genetic circuitry.

  • Alvin Tamsir
  • , Jeffrey J. Tabor
  •  & Christopher A. Voigt