Minyi Guo, Southern Taiwan University of Technology
Minglu Li, Southern Taiwan University of Technology
This paper demonstrates that testing whether a natural number is a prime number or not can also be solved with O(k³) biological operations, O(2^k) DNA library strands, O(k²) the longest length of DNA library and O(1) tubes, where k is the number of bits for a natural number to be checked.
Citation:
Weng-Long Chang, Michael (Shan-Hui) Ho, Minyi Guo, Xiaohong Jiang, Jingling Xue, Minglu Li, "Fast Parallel DNA-Based Algorithms for Molecular Computation: Determining a Prime Number," icita, vol. 1, pp.447-452, Third International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA'05) Volume 1, 2005