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Biological Computing
DNA computing is a special application of molecular biology. Scientists try to exploit the information processing capacity, that molecular structures obviously have, for the storage and computation of non-biological information. Although some early experiments seem to show that computation works extremely fast the problem is to get arbitrary data encoded in DNA (input/output problem). DNA computing is not to be confused with new DNA chips which are used for DNA analysis. There are other technologies using biological organisms for computation, too, like natural neural networks.
 

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Molecular Biology - Genetics
Proteins are the building blocks of life. They form enzymes,which are responsible for virtually all chemical processes in the body. Proteins are combinations of up to 20 different amino acids. The genetic information for the composition of the amino acids is contained in the DNA (see the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology). Using the techniques of gene splicing and recombinant DNA technology, we can now actually combine the genetic elements of two or more living cells. Functioning lengths of DNA can be taken from one organism and placed into the cells of another organism. As a result, for example, we can cause bacterial cells to produce human molecules much faster than the human body. And we can synthesize therapeutic molecules that have never before existed. You can get a brief introduction in the Primer on Molecular Genetics. One of the major projects is sequencing all human genes in the Human Genome Project.

 
   
         
   
Bioinformatics

Modern molecular biology would be impossible without computer technology. The huge amount of data makes the use of computers for analysis, storage and retrieval obligatory. Bio computing covers a wide range of information processing, including mathematical modelling, statistical models, graphical user interfaces, simulation, databases and many more. Standard problems in biocomputing are genome rearrangement, gene finding or protein folding. Bioinformatics practical is an online course in biocomputing

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Biotechnologyne

Men have at all times wondered about the nature of heredity. Around the 18th century botanists began experimenting with plant crossing in a systematic way. The concept of a gene was introduced by Gregor Mendel in 1866. Since then we have learned a lot about the influence genes have on the characteristics of a certain species or an individual creature. Biotechnology seeks to exploit this knowledge for the development of new products or improving existing ones. Current biotechnology methods, which allow the transfer of a gene from one organism to another, involve the same basic scientific processes (crossbreeding and fermentation) people have used for in the past to increase crop productivity. (see GM Food)