DNA Computing [electronic resource] : 9th International Workshop on DNA Based Computers, DNA9, Madison, WI, USA, June 1-3, 2003. Revised Papers / edited by Junghuei Chen, John Reif.

New Experimental Tools -- A Lab-on-a-Chip Module for Bead Separation in DNA-Based Concept Learning -- Parallel Translation of DNA Clusters by VCSEL Array Trapping and Temperature Control with Laser Illumination -- Chemical Switching and Molecular Logic in Fluorescent-Labeled M-DNA -- RCA-Based Detection Methods for Resolution Refutation -- Theory -- Word Design for Molecular Computing: A Survey -- Time-Varying Distributed H Systems with Parallel Computations: The Problem Is Solved -- Deadlock Decidability in Partial Parallel P Systems -- Computer Simulation and Sequence Design -- Languages of DNA Based Code Words -- Secondary Structure Design of Multi-state DNA Machines Based on Sequential Structure Transitions -- Analyzing Secondary Structure Transition Paths of DNA/RNA Molecules -- Self-Assembly and Autonomous Molecular Computation -- Self-Assembled Circuit Patterns -- One Dimensional Boundaries for DNA Tile Self-Assembly -- Proofreading Tile Sets: Error Correction for Algorithmic Self-Assembly -- Experimental Solutions -- A DNA-Based Memory with In Vitro Learning and Associative Recall -- Efficiency and Reliability of Semantic Retrieval in DNA-Based Memories -- Nearest-Neighbor Thermodynamics of DNA Sequences with Single Bulge Loop -- New Computing Models -- Mathematical Considerations in the Design of Microreactor-Based DNA Computers -- Towards a Re-programmable DNA Computer -- In Vitro Translation-Based Computations -- Autonomous Biomolecular Computer Modeled after Retroviral Replication -- Biomolecular Computing by Encoding of Regulated Phosphorylation-Dephosphorylation and Logic of Kinase-Phosphatase in Cells -- Conformational Addressing Using the Hairpin Structure of Single-Strand DNA.