Rate-Independent Constructs for Chemical Computation

Phillip Senum and Marc Riedel

PLOS ONE, 2011, vol. 6, issue 6, 1-12

Abstract: This paper presents a collection of computational modules implemented with chemical reactions: an inverter, an incrementer, a decrementer, a copier, a comparator, a multiplier, an exponentiator, a raise-to-a-power operation, and a logarithm in base two. Unlike previous schemes for chemical computation, this method produces designs that are dependent only on coarse rate categories for the reactions (“fast” vs. “slow”). Given such categories, the computation is exact and independent of the specific reaction rates. The designs are validated through stochastic simulations of the chemical kinetics.

Date: 2011
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