Molecular Computing and Bioinformatics II

Dear Colleagues,

Molecular computing and bioinformatics are two important interdisciplinary sciences. Molecular computing is a branch of computing which uses DNA, biochemistry, and molecular biology hardware, instead of the traditional silicon-based computer technologies. Research and development in this area concerns theory, experiments, and applications of molecular computing. The core advantage of molecular computing is the potential to pack vastly more circuitry onto a microchip than silicon will ever be capable of, and to do it cheaply. Molecules are only a few nanometers in size, which allows to produce chips containing billions or even trillions of switches and components. To develop molecular computers, computer scientists must draw on expertise in subjects not usually associated with their field, including organic chemistry, molecular biology, bioengineering, and smart materials. Bioinformatics works in the opposite way. Bioinformatics researchers develop novel algorithms or software tools for computing or predicting molecular structures or functions. Molecular computing and bioinformatics pay attention to the same object, have close relationship, but work toward different goals.

The guest editors look forward to collecting a set of papers on recent advances in molecular computing and bioinformatics to provide a platform for researchers and create a bridge connecting computer researchers, bioengineers, and molecular biologists.

Prof. Dr. Quan Zou
Prof. Dr. Xiangxiang Zeng
Prof. Dr. Alfonso Rodríguez-Patón
Guest Editors

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