A recent trend in DNA computing research is concerned with innovative DNA procedures of interest in molecular biology. In fact, new bio-techniques may be designed as efficient combinatorial algorithms on biological strings. As an example of such an approach, a few recent DNA recombination algorithms and experiments will be presented in this talk, together with a variant of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (called XPCR) technique, which is a laboratory implementation tool of null context splicing rules.
If time permits, DNA (and bacteria) experiments in progress to prove the genetic drift emergence will be shown as well.
The talk will be as self-contained as possible in terms of both biological and formal language theoretical concepts; curiosity will be then the only requirement for attendance.

For information contact prof. Marco Antoniotti antoniotti@disco.unimib.it

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