Molecular reactions for a molecular memory based on hairpin DNA

Abstract

We have developed molecular reactions that can be used for a DNA molecular memory. The DNA molecular memory is a memory based on DNA molecules and their molecular reactions. The DNA molecule is used as a memory element that has address information in its base sequence and the molecular reaction is used for memory addressing and data writing. Because of using molecules and molecular reactions, the memory is able to provide a large amount of memory space and allows a massively parallel addressing without physical wiring. Here, we report on the DNA molecules and molecular reactions that can be used for constructing the molecular memory.