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Although the design of DNA tiles has been optimised for efficient and specific self-assembly, assembly errors occur so often that applications for molecular computation remain limited. We propose the use of an enveloped tile consisting of a DX- base tile that carries a protector tile to suppress erroneous tile assembly. The design of the enveloped tile promotes the dissociation of the protector tile from the base tile through a self-triggered activation process, which keeps the outputs of the base tile stay protected until both base tile inputs have bonded correctly to the assembly. The enveloped tile design, the self-triggered activation that removes the protector tile and preliminary modelling results are presented.
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Gautam, V.K., Haddow, P.C., Kuiper, M. (2013). Reliable Self-assembly by Self-triggered Activation of Enveloped DNA Tiles. In: Dediu, AH., MartÃn-Vide, C., Truthe, B., Vega-RodrÃguez, M.A. (eds) Theory and Practice of Natural Computing. TPNC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45008-2_6
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