DNA computing. 8th internatinal workshop on DNA-based computers, DNA8, Sapporo, Japan, June 10--13, 2002. Revised papers (Q1394735)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding workshop has been reviewed (see Zbl 0992.00041). Indexed articles: \textit{Sa-Ardyen, Phiset; Jonoska, Nataša; Seeman, Nadrian C.}, Self-assembling DNA graphs, 1-9 [Zbl 1026.68560] \textit{Liu, Dage; Reif, John H.; LaBean, Thomas H.}, DNA nanotubes: Construction and characterization of filaments composed of TX-tile lattice, 10-21 [Zbl 1026.68794] \textit{Reif, John H.}, The design of autonomous DNA nanomechanical devices: Walking and rolling DNA, 22-37 [Zbl 1026.68558] \textit{Matsuda, Daisuke; Yamamura, Masayuki}, Cascading Whiplash PCR with a nicking enzyme, 38-46 [Zbl 1026.68557] \textit{Rose, John A.; Takano, Mitsunori; Suyama, Akira}, A PNA-mediated Whiplash PCR-based program for in vitro protein evolution, 47-60 [Zbl 1026.68559] \textit{Basu, Subhayu; Karig, David; Weiss, Ron}, Engineering signal processing in cells: Towards molecular concentration band detection, 61-72 [Zbl 1026.68538] \textit{Lee, Ji Youn; Shin, Soo-Yong; Augh, Sirk June; Park, Tai Hyun; Zhang, Byoung-Tak}, Temperature gradient-based DNA computing for graph problems with weighted edges, 73-84 [Zbl 1026.68554] \textit{Takenaka, Yoichi; Hashimoto, Akihiro}, Shortening the computational time of the fluorescent DNA computing, 85-94 [Zbl 1026.68563] \textit{de la Torre, Pilar}, How efficiently can room at the bottom be traded away for speed at the top?, 95-111 [Zbl 1026.68541] \textit{Kashiwamura, Satoshi; Yamamoto, Masahito; Kameda, Atsushi; Shiba, Toshikazu; Ohuchi, Azuma}, Hierarchical DNA memory based on nested PCR, 112-123 [Zbl 1026.68549] \textit{Barua, Rana; Misra, Janardan}, Binary arithmetic for DNA computers, 124-132 [Zbl 1026.68537] \textit{Hug, Hubert; Schuler, Rainer}, Implementation of a random walk method for solving 3-SAT on circular DNA molecules, 133-142 [Zbl 1026.68547] \textit{Lim, Hee-Woong; Yun, Ji-Eun; Jang, Hae-Man; Chai, Young-Gyu; Yoo, Suk-In; Zhang, Byoung-Tak}, Version space learning with DNA molecules, 143-155 [Zbl 1026.68555] \textit{Lee, In-Hee; Park, Ji-Yoon; Jang, Hae-Man; Chai, Young-Gyu; Zhang, Byoung-Tak}, DNA implementation of theorem proving with resolution refutation in propositional logic, 156-167 [Zbl 1026.68553] \textit{Wood, David Harlan; Clelland, Catherine L. Taylor; Bancroft, Carter}, Universal biochip readout of directed Hamiltonian path problems, 168-181 [Zbl 1026.68565] \textit{Andronescu, Mirela; Dees, Danielle; Slaybaugh, Laura; Zhao, Yinglei; Condon, Anne; Cohen, Barry; Skiena, Steven}, Algorithms for testing that sets of DNA words concatenate without secondary structure, 182-195 [Zbl 1026.68536] \textit{Deaton, Russell; Chen, Junghuei; Bi, Hong; Garzon, Max; Rubin, Harvey; Wood, David Harlan}, A PCR-based protocol for in vitro selection of non-crosshybridizing oligonucleotides, 196-204 [Zbl 1026.68542] \textit{Kobayashi, Satoshi; Kondo, Tomohiro; Arita, Masanori}, On template method for DNA sequence design, 205-214 [Zbl 1026.68552] \textit{Heitsch, Christine E.; Condon, Anne E.; Hoos, Holger H.}, From RNA secondary structure to coding theory: A combinatorial approach, 215-228 [Zbl 1026.68546] \textit{Tulpan, Dan C.; Hoos, Holger H.; Condon, Anne E.}, Stochastic local search algorithms for DNA word design, 229-241 [Zbl 1026.68564] \textit{Kim, Dongmin; Shin, Soo-Yong; Lee, In-Hee; Zhang, Byoung-Tak}, NACST/Seq: A sequence design system with multiobjective optimization, 242-251 [Zbl 1026.68551] \textit{Deaton, Russell; Chen, Junghuei; Bi, Hong; Rose, John A.}, A software tool for generating non-crosshybridizing libraries of DNA oligonucleotides, 252-261 [Zbl 1026.68543] \textit{Head, Tom; Pixton, Dennis; Goode, Elizabeth}, Splicing systems: Regularity and below, 262-268 [Zbl 1026.68545] \textit{Takahara, Akihiro; Yokomori, Takashi}, On the computational power of insertion-deletion systems, 269-280 [Zbl 1026.68562] \textit{Ionescu, Mihai; Martín-Vide, Carlos; Paun, Andrei; Paun, Gheorghe}, Unexpected universality results for three classes of P systems with symport/antiport, 281-290 [Zbl 1026.68548] \textit{Frisco, Pierluigi; Ji, Sungchul}, Conformons-P systems, 291-301 [Zbl 1026.68544] \textit{Besozzi, Daniela; Ferretti, Claudio; Mauri, Giancarlo; Zandron, Claudio}, Parallel rewriting P systems with deadlock, 302-314 [Zbl 1026.68540] \textit{Sakakibara, Yasubumi; Imai, Hiroshi}, A DNA-based computational model using a specific type of restriction enzyme, 315-325 [Zbl 1026.68561] \textit{Margenstern, Maurice; Rogozhin, Yurii; Verlan, Sergey}, Time-varying distributed H systems of degree 2 can carry out parallel computations, 326-336 [Zbl 1026.68556]