Title
Computing Polynomials by Chemical Reaction Networks.
Abstract
Chemical reaction networks (CRNs) provide a fundamental model in the study of molecular systems. Widely used as formalism for the analysis of chemical and biochemical systems, CRNs have received renewed attention as a model for molecular computation. This paper demonstrates that, with a new encoding, CRNs can compute any set of polynomial functions subject only to the limitation that these functions must map the unit interval to itself. These polynomials can be expressed as linear combinations of Bernstein basis polynomials with positive coefficients less than or equal to 1. In the proposed encoding approach, each variable is represented using two molecular types: a type-0 and a type-1. The value is the ratio of the concentration of type-1 molecules to the sum of the concentrations of type-0 and type-1 molecules. The proposed encoding naturally exploits the expansion of a power-form polynomial into a Bernstein polynomials. The method is illustrated first for generic CRNs; then the chemical reactions designed for two examples are mapped to DNA strand-displacement reactions.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
IEEE Global Communications Conference
Discrete mathematics,Linear combination,Polynomial,Molecule,Stochastic process,Unit interval,Bernstein polynomial,Mathematics,Encoding (memory),Computation
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2334-0983
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sayed Ahmad Salehi1313.78
keshab k parhi23235369.07
Marc D. Riedel352148.65