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Dna Self-Assembly Design For Gear Graphs, Chiara Mattamira
Dna Self-Assembly Design For Gear Graphs, Chiara Mattamira
Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal
Application of graph theory to the well-known complementary properties of DNA strands has resulted in new insights about more efficient ways to form DNA nanostructures, which have been discovered as useful tools for drug delivery, biomolecular computing, and biosensors. The key concept underlying DNA nanotechnology is the formation of complete DNA complexes out of a given collection of branched junction molecules. These molecules can be modeled in the abstract as portions of graphs made up of vertices and half-edges, where complete edges are representations of double-stranded DNA pieces that have joined together. For efficiency, one aim is to minimize the …