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Not everyone has the knowledge or facility to do microfabrication. This paper will show that with a few simple off-the-shelf items a microfluidic DNA computer can be build. It also shows hybridisation and annealing working in such a system. Furthermore, there are some tentative results of a small computing problem. Finally, in the conclusion, it gives some suggestion of ways of automation.
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van Noort, D. (2006). A Poor Man’s Microfluidic DNA Computer. In: Carbone, A., Pierce, N.A. (eds) DNA Computing. DNA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3892. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11753681_30
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