The term “uracil” was first coined by German chemist Robert Behrend in 1885 during uric acid derivative synthesis. In RNA, uracil is found as one of the four nucleobases and binds with adenine by two hydrogen bonds. It is a pyrimidine derivative. In DNA molecule, thymine is present instead of uracil.
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DNA Computing Using Carbon Nanotube-DNA Hybrid Nanostructure
Swati Sinha (University of Calcutta, India & West Bengal University of Technology, India), Jaya Bandyopadhyay (West Bengal University of Technology, India), and Debashis De (West Bengal University of Technology, India & University of Western Australia, Australia)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 31
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0058-2.ch030
Abstract
DNA computing is a branch of biomolecular computing using the physical and chemical properties of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. It is a fast-developing interdisciplinary research area consisting of nano-biotechnology, computer science and biochemistry. DNA computing is widely used now-a-days for logic design, biomarker, cryptography, disease detection etc. In recent years, carbon nanotube or CNT research has reached a new peak with its various applications including nano-biocomputing. DNA plays a pivotal role in biology and CNT is considered as a wonder material of this century in nanoscience. This chapter combines these two promising research areas including CNT and DNA to form CNT-DNA based nanostructured system and its applications in diverse fields like electronics, biomedical engineering, drug delivery, gene therapy, biosensor technology etc. CNT-DNA hybrid and its various suitable combinations open up a new dimension called CNT-DNA computing.